cnota

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Irish

Etymology

From English knot.

Noun

cnota m (genitive singular cnota, nominative plural cnotaí)

  1. knot, cockade
  2. (zoology) crest
  3. (nautical) knot
  4. red knot (Calidris canutus)

Declension

Declension of cnota (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative cnota cnotaí
vocative a chnota a chnotaí
genitive cnota cnotaí
dative cnota cnotaí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an cnota na cnotaí
genitive an chnota na gcnotaí
dative leis an gcnota
don chnota
leis na cnotaí

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cnota chnota gcnota
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Old Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *čьstьnota. By surface analysis, czsny +‎ -ota. First attested in the.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /t͡snɔta/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /t͡snɔta/

Noun

cnota f

  1. nobility, virtue
    • 1451-1455, Legenda o świętym Aleksym, line 81:
      Kaszdi czlonek w mym ziwocze chczą chowacz w kaszny y w cznocze
      [Każdy członek w mym żywocie chcę chować w kaźni i w cnocie]
  2. (attested in Masovia) Some moral value.
  3. (attested in Lesser Poland) power
    • 1939 [end of the 14th century], Ryszard Ganszyniec, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Kubica, Ludwik Bernacki, editors, Psałterz florjański łacińsko-polsko-niemiecki [Sankt Florian Psalter]‎, Krakow: Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich, z zasiłkiem Sejmu Śląskiego [The Ossoliński National Institute: with the benefit of the Silesian Parliament], pages 20, 13:
      Powiszon bødz, gospodne, we czsnoscy twoiey, pacz bødzem y spewacz czsnoti (Puł: szyly) twoie (cantabimus et psallemus virtutes tuas)
      [Powyszon bądź, Gospodnie, we csności twojej, piać będziem i śpiewać csnoty (Puł: siły) twoje (cantabimus et psallemus virtutes tuas)]
  4. honor
    • Middle of the 15th century, Rozmyślanie o żywocie Pana Jezusa, page 345:
      Prorok każdy nigdzie nie jest przeze cnoty, jedno w s[w]ojej znani albo oczyznie a w swojem domu (non est propheta sine honore nisi in patria sua et in domo sua Mat 13, 57)
      ["Prorok każdy nigdzie nie jest przeze cnoty, jedno w s[w]ojej znany [ziemi] albo oczyźnie a w swojem domu" (non est propheta sine honore nisi in patria sua et in domo sua Mat 13, 57)]

Descendants

References

  • B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “cnota”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Polish

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Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish czsnota. By surface analysis, cny +‎ -ota.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡snɔ.ta/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔta
  • Syllabification: cno‧ta

Noun

cnota f

  1. virtue (excellence in morals)
  2. chastity; virginity
    pas cnotychastity belt

Declension

Derived terms

adjectives

Descendants

Further reading

  • cnota in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • cnota in Polish dictionaries at PWN