grotta – Italian noun declension

Italian noun forms of grotta

Noun: grotta
Gender: f Hyphenation: gròt‧ta grót‧ta
Singular mgrottìno; grottóne
Singular fgrotta
Plural fgrotte

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like grotta

finestra, gamba, figura, grotta, camera,

Etymology

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2. Ancient Greek κρύπτω (krúptō)
3. Ancient Greek κρυπτή (kruptḗ)bor.
4. Latin crypta
5. Italian grotta
6. Inherited from Vulgar Latin *grupta ~ *crupta, from Latin crypta, from Ancient Greek κρυπτή (kruptḗ). Doublet of cripta, which Italian borrowed from Latin. Found in the toponym Grotte. Compare Sicilian grutta, the probable source of Spanish gruta and Portuguese gruta. See: Latin Nouns 'crypta', Ancient Greek Nouns 'κρυπτή', Spanish Nouns 'gruta', Portuguese Nouns 'gruta'.

Verbs referencing "grotta"

Dutch Nouns grot, English Nouns grotto, Danish Nouns grotte, French Nouns grotte, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns grotte, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns grotte, Portuguese Nouns grota, Romanian Nouns criptă.

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