Skip to content

segmento

segment

noun seh-GMEN-toh Rare

Origin: Latin segmentum, from secare 'to cut.'

Also means

section

Usage Note

Segmento is masculine (i segmenti). In geometry it means a line segment; in marketing and business it refers to a market segment (segmento di mercato). In everyday Italian it also appears in road contexts: un segmento autostradale (a stretch of motorway).

Examples

"Questo segmento del mercato è in crescita."

Natural Translation

This market segment is growing.

Free starter pack

Building your Italian vocabulary?

Get the 100 most common Italian words as a free PDF — one email, no spam.

Explore Italian by topic