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Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
десет + -ник, literally "one who leads a group of ten".
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /děsetniːk/
- Hyphenation: де‧сет‧ник
Noun
дѐсетнӣк m (Latin spelling dèsetnīk)
- (military, army) corporal
- Synonyms: (Serbia) десетар, (Bosnia) каплар
- (military, navy) petty officer second class
- (military, Ancient Rome) decurion
Declension
Further reading
- “десетник”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024