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Czech
Etymology
From hrádek (“small castle”) + -ek (“diminutive suffix”) (i.e., hrad + -ek (“castle + first diminutive suffix”) = hrádek; hrádek → hrádeč- (-ek → -eč-) + -ek (second diminutive suffix) = hrádeček) (also see Wikipedia article: diminutive).
Pronunciation
Noun
hrádeček m inan (this noun is a double diminutive or a diminutive of a diminutive)
- diminutive of hrádek
Declension
Declension of hrádeček (velar masculine inanimate reducible)
Further reading
- “hrádeček”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “hrádeček”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989