prosinac

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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)

  1. (Croatia) December
    Synonym: dècēmbar
    u prosincu ― in December
    dvadeset petog prosinca ― on the twenty-fifth of December
  2. mercury (Mercurialis gen. et spp.)
    Synonyms: rèsulja, štȋr, mrkorèla, mrkonèla, mrkvela, (Istra, Krk) mrkvjela, bingulja

Declension

Declension of prosinac
singular plural
nominative pròsinac prosinci
genitive pròsīnca prosinaca
dative prosincu prosincima
accusative prosinac prosince
vocative prosinče prosinci
locative prosincu prosincima
instrumental prosincem prosincima

Derived terms

See also

Further reading

  • “prosinac”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
  • “prosinac”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
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