Random Italian Words With Article, Gender and Meaning

How this list was compiled: Everyday Italian words. Each word's spelling, part of speech and meaning come from its own entry on English Wiktionary (wikitext read through https://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php on 2026-09-30, 40 titles to a request, text under CC BY-SA 4.0; the entry's address is in x.src), Italian section, and each noun's gender is the one in the entry's it-noun template. The article in front of a noun (il, lo, la or l') is set by script from that gender and the word's first letters, by the rule read on 2026-09-30 in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_grammar (lo before s plus a consonant, z, gn, ps, x and y; l' before a vowel; il otherwise; la before a consonant and l' before a vowel for feminine nouns). False friends are our own selection of words that look like an English word and mean something else; the Italian meaning on each card was checked in the entry like every other, and the English look-alike is named after the word 'not'. No dish names. The list is our own choice of everyday vocabulary and is copied from no exam body's or course's list. The English meanings are our own short wording; a script then checked that a word of each meaning stands in a definition line under the same part-of-speech heading of the entry, and words that failed were left out. Every English meaning was read for a school audience: no slang, insult, swear word, alcohol or adult term. After the file was written a script read it back and checked every row against the saved entry text again. Licence: own work