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Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pьkъlъ, from Proto-Indo-European *pik- (“pitch”). Cognate with Bulgarian пъкъл (pǎkǎl), Slovene pekel, Slovak peklo. Akin to Latin pix (“pitch, tar”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pǎkao/
- Hyphenation: па‧ка‧о
Noun
па̀као m (Latin spelling pàkao)
- hell
Добродошли у пакао, господо.- Welcome to hell, gentlemen.
Declension
References
- “пакао”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024