cirkumflex
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Czech
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin circumflexus (“bent about”).
Pronunciation
Noun
cirkumflex m inan (related adjective cirkumflexní or cirkumflexový)
- circumflex (ˆ)
Declension
Declension of cirkumflex (hard masculine inanimate)
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | cirkumflex | cirkumflexy |
| genitive | cirkumflexu | cirkumflexů |
| dative | cirkumflexu | cirkumflexům |
| accusative | cirkumflex | cirkumflexy |
| vocative | cirkumflexe | cirkumflexy |
| locative | cirkumflexu | cirkumflexech |
| instrumental | cirkumflexem | cirkumflexy |
Related terms
Further reading
- “cirkumflex”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
- “cirkumflex”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “cirkumflex”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
Swedish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin circumflexus (“bent about”).
Noun
cirkumflex c
- (orthography) a circumflex (ˆ)
Declension
| Declension of cirkumflex | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | cirkumflex | cirkumflexen | cirkumflexer | cirkumflexerna |
| Genitive | cirkumflex | cirkumflexens | cirkumflexers | cirkumflexernas |