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Latvian
Etymology
From dienvidi (“south”) + slāvs (“Slav”), a calque of Serbo-Croatian Југославија (Jugoslavija), from the words југ (jug, “south”) and Славен, Словен (slaven, sloven, “Slav”).
Noun
dienvidslāvs m (1st declension, feminine form: dienvidslāviete)
- a (male) southern Slav, a member of one of the southern Slavic peoples (Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Montenegrins, Macedonians, Bulgarians)
- (genitive plural) south Slavic, pertaining to the south Slavic peoples
- (dated sense, before 1992) a (male) citizen of the former Yugoslavia
- (dated sense, before 1992, genitive plural) Yugoslav, Yugoslavian (pertaining to Yugoslavia and its peoples)
Declension
Declension of dienvidslāvs (1st declension)