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Russian
Etymology
почте́ние (počténije) + -ный (-nyj)
Pronunciation
Adjective
почте́нный • (počténnyj)
- respectable, honorable, eminent
- почте́нный граждани́н ― počténnyj graždanín ― respectable citizen
1905, Фёдор Сологуб [Fyodor Sologub], chapter XIII, in Мелкий бес; English translation from John Cournos and Richard Aldington, transl., The Little Demon, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1916:Иногда́ он составля́л, преиму́щественно по заграни́чным кни́жкам, компиля́цию, почте́нную и никому́ нену́жную, и печа́тал её́ в журна́ле, то́же почте́нном и то́же никому́ нену́жном.- Inogdá on sostavljál, preimúščestvenno po zagraníčnym knížkam, kompiljáciju, počténnuju i nikomú nenúžnuju, i pečátal jejó v žurnále, tóže počténnom i tóže nikomú nenúžnom.
- Sometimes he put together, chiefly from foreign books, a compilation which was very respectable and quite unnecessary to anyone and published it in a periodical equally respectable and equally unnecessary.
- (colloquial) considerable
Declension
Declension of почте́нный (short class a*)