пораженец

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Russian

Etymology

Coined by Russian writer Grigory Aleksinsky as a derivation of пораже́ние (poražénije, defeat) +‎ -ец (-ec, agent noun suffix).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

пораже́нец (poražénecm anim (genitive пораже́нца, nominative plural пораже́нцы, genitive plural пораже́нцев, feminine пораже́нка)

  1. defeatist
    • 1960, Valentin Kataev, chapter 10, in Зимний Ветер [Wintry Wind]:
      Говори, ты оборонец? Или, может быть, ты пораженец?
      Govori, ty oboronec? Ili, možet bytʹ, ty poraženec?
      Tell , are you a Menshevik? Or, maybe you are a defeatist?
    • 1990, Aleksandr Zinoviev, Баллада о неудачниках; Притча о пустяках; Сказание о Мазиле [A ballad of losers; A parable of trifles; A story of a fool]:
      Вслед за Патриотом пришел Пораженец — курсант Ибанов, поднявший по дороге на аэродром листовку, которую сбросил бог весть как залетевший в такой глубокий тыл вражеский самолет.
      Vsled za Patriotom prišel Poraženec — kursant Ibanov, podnjavšij po doroge na aerodrom listovku, kotoruju sbrosil bog vestʹ kak zaletevšij v takoj glubokij tyl vražeskij samolet.
      Following the Patriot came the Defeatist — cadet Ibanov, that on his way to the airfield picked up a flyer, that was dropped by an enemy airplane, that God knows how turned up so far on the rear.
    • 2008, V. I. Syrenskij, E. A. Rodina, Психофизиология здоровья [Psychophysiology of health]:
      Однако далеко не каждый пораженец, но и победитель способен к сознательному совершенствованию.
      Odnako daleko ne každyj poraženec, no i pobeditelʹ sposoben k soznatelʹnomu soveršenstvovaniju.
      However not every defeatist by far, but also a winner is capable of consientious development.
  2. (historical, Soviet Union) A person, often part of a racial or social minority, that has been stripped of some or all of their rights.
  3. (historical, Soviet Union) A person arrested for doubting Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany.

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

  • French: défaitiste (calque) (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. ^ Catherine Slater (1980 October) “Note critique sur l'origine de « défaitisme » et « défaitiste »”, in Mots. Les langages du politique (in French), →DOI, pages 213–217

Further reading

  • Piotr Czernivski (2011) Негативно оценочные лексемы языка советской действительности [Negatively estimated lexemes of the language of the Soviet reality], Tomsk, →ISBN, pages 222, 223