🇪🇸 Spanish

camino

masculine

el camino

path

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camino
/el kaˈmino/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say camino in Spanish?

IPA
/el kaˈmino/

How do you pronounce camino in Spanish?

camino is pronounced /el kaˈmino/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

El camino largo y sinuoso nos llevó a través de las montañas.

The long and winding road took us through the mountains.

El camino antiguo estaba completamente destruido por las lluvias recientes.

The old road was completely destroyed by recent rains.

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Why is it masculine?

Camino is masculine because it derives from the Latin "caminus," which was a masculine noun in Latin meaning "path" or "road." Spanish retained this grammatical gender through regular phonetic evolution from Vulgar Latin. The -o ending in Spanish typically indicates masculine gender, reinforcing the masculine classification inherited from Latin.

What is the Spanish word for path?

The Spanish word for path is el camino — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchcheminlemasculine
🇵🇹 Portuguesecaminhoomasculine

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