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Giorgia Meloni’s Italy wants to rename electricity (www.politico.eu)

submitted 2 weeks ago by resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Would the plural be "volte"?

[–] Vinylraupe@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

*Voltae

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Hmm, I think Volti assuming Volta is masculine: https://connex-ita.com/plural-in-italian/

Voltae looks more like Latin. Romani ite domum!

[–] Damage@feddit.it 6 points 2 weeks ago

Italian here. Plural would still be Volta, because it already is in a sense. Now, for the actual words "volta" meaning vault, arch, and "volta" meaning "time" (as in "that time we did that"), then the plural is "volte".

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 weeks ago

Now write it out a hundred times!

[–] Chrobin@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I do not know Italian, but I'd be surprised if a word ending on "a" were masculine. Usually, "a" indicates feminine, making the plural "e"

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

Ancient Romans gobbled a lot of classical greek; the masculine -a nouns are usually greek origin (sistema, tema, problema), but they are the exception.

Volta is a proper name, though, so there wouldn't be any rules.

[–] Vinylraupe@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It would be neutrum in German. (the forbidden sex)

[–] Chrobin@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Voltae would be Latin, in Italian, Volte is the correct plural.

[–] Vinylraupe@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

In German it would be Voltae.

[–] AzuraTheSpellkissed@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago

And now let the Italian and the German far right fight over it.