троглодит

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Bulgarian

Noun

троглоди́т (troglodít)

  1. (literary) troglodyte

Declension

Russian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek τρωγλοδύτης (trōglodútēs).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: тро‧гло‧дит
  • Rhymes: -it

Noun

троглоди́т (troglodítm anim (genitive троглоди́та, nominative plural троглоди́ты, genitive plural троглоди́тов)

  1. (anthropology) troglodyte (1)
  2. (figurative, colloquial) ignoramus, troglodyte (3)
    • 1951, Joseph Stalin, Marxism and Problems of Linguistics:
      У нас бы́ли одно́ вре́мя «маркси́сты», кото́рые утвержда́ли, что желе́зные доро́ги, оста́вшиеся в на́шей стране́ по́сле Октя́брьского переворо́та, явля́ются буржуа́зными, что не приста́ло нам, маркси́стам, по́льзоваться и́ми, что ну́жно их срыть и постро́ить но́вые, «пролета́рские» доро́ги. Они́ получи́ли за э́то про́звище «троглоди́тов»…
      U nas býli odnó vrémja «marksísty», kotóryje utverždáli, što želéznyje dorógi, ostávšijesja v nášej strané pósle Oktjábrʹskovo perevoróta, javljájutsja buržuáznymi, što ne pristálo nam, marksístam, pólʹzovatʹsja ími, što núžno ix srytʹ i postróitʹ nóvyje, «proletárskije» dorógi. Oní polučíli za éto prózvišče «troglodítov»…
      At one time there were “Marxists” in our country who asserted that the railways left to us after the October Revolution were bourgeois railways, that it would be unseemly for us Marxists to use them, that they should be torn up and new, “proletarian” railways built. For this they were nicknamed “troglodytes”…
  3. (figurative, colloquial) glutton

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /troɡlǒdiːt/
  • Hyphenation: тро‧гло‧дит

Noun

трогло̀дӣт m (Latin spelling troglòdīt)

  1. troglodyte

Declension