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Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from German Pazient, from Latin patiens (“patient”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pat͡sǐjent/, /pat͡sijěnt/
- Hyphenation: pa‧ci‧jent
Noun
pacìjent or pacijȅnt m (Cyrillic spelling пацѝјент or пације̏нт)
- patient (person receiving medical treatment)
- (slang) perverse, eccentric person, person who does things strangely or cluelessly, nutcase
- (slang) irritating, unwanted person
Declension
References
- “pacijent”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024