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Italian nouns whose ending is not typical for nouns of their gender.
In Italian, most feminine nouns end in -a and most masculine nouns end in -o. A few nouns have the opposite ending to what is usual for their gender and those belong in this category.
Note 1:
Quite a few nouns take neither ending but for the purposes of this category they are considered neither regular nor irregular but unpredictable.
Note 2:
Some words have irregular gender only in one homonym or one sense. Some others can be either gender without changing their ending. All of these are counted as irregular.