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Russian
Pronunciation
Noun
черенки́ • (čerenkí) m inan pl or m anim pl
- inflection of черено́к (čerenók):
- nominative plural
- inanimate accusative plural
Ukrainian
Etymology
Plural of Ukrainian черенка (čerenka, “one type symbol; knife handle”), from черен (čeren, “handle, stem”) + -ка (-ka), from Old East Slavic черенъ (čerenŭ), from Proto-Slavic *černъ. Cognate with Ukrainian корінь (korinʹ).
The semantic development of черенка into "a single font glyph" is not fully clear. Possibly as follows: "handle; stem" → " knife handle" → "long metal handle, stem" → "metal stem that holds a typographic symbol". The very first printing presses used a set of metal glyphs that looked like long thin stems with a convex symbols on the tips.
Noun
черенки́ • (čerenký) f inan pl (genitive , plural only)
- (typography, archaic) font, type
- Synonym: шрифт (šryft)
References
Further reading
- “черенки”, in Горох – Словозміна (in Ukrainian)
- “черенки”, in Словник.ua (in Ukrainian)
- Hrinchenko, Borys, editor (1924), “чере́нка”, in Словарь української мови (in Russian), volumes 2: О – Я, Berlin: Ukrainske Slowo, page 966
- Hrinchenko, Borys, editor (1924), “черенки́”, in Словарь української мови (in Russian), volumes 2: О – Я, Berlin: Ukrainske Slowo, page 966