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Polish
Etymology
From cnota + -liwy.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ivɘ
- Syllabification: cno‧tli‧wy
Adjective
cnotliwy (comparative cnotliwszy or bardziej cnotliwy, superlative najcnotliwszy or najbardziej cnotliwy, derived adverb cnotliwie)
- virtuous (full of virtue, having excellent moral character)
- chaste, continent (abstaining from sexual intercourse)
- Synonym: nieskalany
- (Far Masovian) good (having positive traits)
- Moja krowa taka cnotliwa, co zawsze mleko przypuści. ― My cow is so good, that it will always give milk..
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:dobry
Declension
Declension of cnotliwy (hard)
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- cnotliwy in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- cnotliwy in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894) “cnotliwy”, in Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 105