censīgs

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Latvian

Etymology

From censt(ies) (“to try”) +‎ -īgs. The standard stem for this verb has š (es cenšos, “I try”), but dialectally also t (es centos), which explains why there are derived forms with t, like centīgs, centība (“zeal”), and with s, like censonis (“striver, fighter, assiduous person”) or sacensība (“competition”) (and also, colloquially, censīgs, censība).[1]

Adjective

censīgs (definite censīgais, comparative censīgāks, superlative viscensīgākais, adverb censīgi)

  1. (colloquial) industrious, diligent, zealous; alternative form of centīgs

Declension

indefinite declension (nenoteiktā galotne) of censīgs
masculine (vīriešu dzimte) feminine (sieviešu dzimte)
singular
(vienskaitlis) 		plural
(daudzskaitlis) 		singular
(vienskaitlis) 		plural
(daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) censīgs censīgi censīga censīgas
accusative (akuzatīvs) censīgu censīgus censīgu censīgas
genitive (ģenitīvs) censīga censīgu censīgas censīgu
dative (datīvs) censīgam censīgiem censīgai censīgām
instrumental (instrumentālis) censīgu censīgiem censīgu censīgām
locative (lokatīvs) censīgā censīgos censīgā censīgās
vocative (vokatīvs) — — — —

References

  1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “censties”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca‎ (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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