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Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
- (December): Uncertain. Morphologically possibly from pro- (“through”) + sȋnjī (“gray; of the colour of ash”). Etymology of Christian source describes it as a month of "praying" (compare pròsiti (“to pray”)). Other sources speculate that, since it's the month of Sun's solstice, it would be the month in which the Sun "starts glowing" (compare prosínuti (“to start glowing”)). Cognate to Czech prosinec.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /prǒsinat͡s/
- Hyphenation: pro‧si‧nac
Noun
pròsinac m (Cyrillic spelling про̀синац, relational adjective pròsinačkī)
- (Croatia) December
- Synonym: dècēmbar
- u prosincu ― in December
- dvadeset petog prosinca ― on the twenty-fifth of December
- mercury (Mercurialis gen. et spp.)
- Synonyms: rèsulja, štȋr, mrkorèla, mrkonèla, mrkvela, (Istra, Krk) mrkvjela, bingulja
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Further reading
- “prosinac”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
- “prosinac”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025