🇮🇹 Italian

vino

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masculine

il vino

wine

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vino
/il ˈviːno/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say vino in Italian?

IPA
/il ˈviːno/

How do you pronounce vino in Italian?

vino is pronounced /il ˈviːno/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il vino rosso italiano è molto famoso nel mondo.

The red Italian wine is very famous in the world.

Questo vino bianco è eccellente, lo consiglio vivamente.

This white wine is excellent, I highly recommend it.

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Why is it masculine?

Vino is masculine because it descends from Latin "vinum," which was a neuter noun. However, in the evolution from Latin to Italian, most Latin neuter nouns ending in "-um" shifted to masculine gender. The word "vino" reflects this common sound change and gender shift, where the neuter "-um" ending became the masculine "-o" ending in Italian.

What is the Italian word for wine?

The Italian word for wine is il vino — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchvinlemasculine
🇪🇸 Spanishvinoelmasculine
🇵🇹 Portuguesevinhoomasculine

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