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Bulgarian
Etymology
Compound of месо (meso, “meat”) + -о- (-o-) + пуст (pust, “empty, devoid”), inherited from Old Church Slavonic мѧсопоустъ (męsopustŭ). Synchronically, probably a calque of Latin carnisprivium.
Pronunciation
Noun
месопу́ст • (mesopúst) m (relational adjective месопу́стен)
- (ecclesiastical) beginning of fasting; particularly Месопустна неделя (equivalent to Catholic “Quinquagesima”)
- Synonym: (dated) заговя́зън (zagovjázǎn)
Declension
Declension of месопу́ст
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singular
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месопу́ст
mesopúst
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definite
(subject form)
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месопу́стът
mesopústǎt
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definite
(object form)
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месопу́ста
mesopústa
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Coordinate terms
- пост (post, “fasting, lent”)
References
- “месопуст”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
- Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “месопуст”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 760
- “мѧсопоустъ”, in Старобългарски речник [Old Bulgarian Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), https://histdict.uni-sofia.bg, 2011—2024