agrastas

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Lithuanian

 agrastas on Lithuanian Wikipedia
Agrastų uogos - Gooseberries

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish agrest (“gooseberry”), in turn borrowed from Italian agresto (“sour grape, verjuice”).

Pronunciation

Noun

agrãstas m (plural agrãstai) stress pattern 2

  1. gooseberry[1] (a thorny bush, Ribes uva-crispa, or its fruit)

Declension

Declension of agrãstas
singular (vienaskaita) plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas) agrãstas agrãstai
genitive (kilmininkas) agrãsto agrãstų
dative (naudininkas) agrãstui agrãstams
accusative (galininkas) agrãstą agrastùs
instrumental (įnagininkas) agrastù agrãstais
locative (vietininkas) agrastè agrãstuose
vocative (šauksmininkas) agrãste agrãstai

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ “agrastas” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN

Further reading

  • “agrastas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
  • “agrastas”, in Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of contemporary Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, 1954–2024
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