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Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From German Kappus (“cabbage”), with the first -у- coming by merger with another word with the same meaning. Compare dialectal Serbo-Croatian капуц, капус (from Venetian capuzzo), and also Old Serbo-Croatian (Kajkavian) kupust (ultimately from Latin composita (“mixed”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kǔpus/
- Hyphenation: ку‧пус
Noun
ку̀пус m (Latin spelling kùpus)
- cabbage
Declension
References
- “купус” in Hrvatski jezični portal
- Gluhak, Alemko (1993) “купус”, in Hrvatski etimološki rječnik [Croatian Etymology Dictionary] (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: August Cesarec, →ISBN, page 360