🇪🇸 Spanish

piso

masculine

el piso

floor

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piso
/el ˈpiso/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say piso in Spanish?

IPA
/el ˈpiso/

How do you pronounce piso in Spanish?

piso is pronounced /el ˈpiso/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

El piso nuevo está en el tercer piso del edificio.

The new apartment is on the third floor of the building.

El piso antiguo necesita reparaciones urgentes en sus paredes.

The old floor needs urgent repairs on its walls.

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Why is it masculine?

Piso is masculine because it derives from Latin "pinsere" (to pound or crush), which produced the past participle "pissum." In Spanish, nouns derived from Latin past participles typically adopt masculine gender, following the pattern of many Latin neuter and masculine forms that were incorporated into Spanish's two-gender system.

What is the Spanish word for floor?

The Spanish word for floor is el piso — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchétagel'masculine
🇮🇹 Italianpavimentoilmasculine
🇵🇹 Portugueseandaromasculine

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