🇵🇹 Portuguese

estilo

Did you know? This word is a cognate — it looks similar in English and has the same meaning. Cognates are usually easier to remember!
masculine

o estilo

style

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estilo
/u isˈtʃilu/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say estilo in Portuguese?

IPA
/u isˈtʃilu/

How do you pronounce estilo in Portuguese?

estilo is pronounced /u isˈtʃilu/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

O estilo moderno do arquiteto impressionou todos os críticos.

The architect's modern style impressed all the critics.

Esse estilo clássico é muito apreciado pelos colecionadores antigos.

That classical style is greatly appreciated by antique collectors.

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Why is it masculine?

Estilo is masculine in Portuguese because it derives from Latin "stilus" (a pointed writing instrument), which was a masculine noun in Latin, and Portuguese retained this grammatical gender through regular sound changes and inheritance patterns. The word's gender was preserved as the language evolved from Vulgar Latin, similar to how other Latin masculine nouns ending in "-us" became Portuguese masculine nouns ending in "-o."

What is the Portuguese word for style?

The Portuguese word for style is o estilo — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇮🇹 Italianstilelomasculine

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