крѣпъкъ

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Old Church Slavonic

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *krěpъkъ.

Adjective

крѣпъкъ (krěpŭkŭ) (comparative крѣпл҄ии or крѣпѣи or крѣплѣи or крѣпъчаи)

  1. strong, healthy, powerful
  2. vigorous
    • from the Slavonic Josephus:
      Наутрия вышедъше нападоша на римляны велми крѣпле.
      Nautrija vyšedŭše napadoša na rimljany velmi krěple.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • lines 112-115, from the Primary Chronicle:
      ѡльга же ꙋстреми сѧ съ сꙑнъмъ своимъ, а деревлѧне затвориша сѧ въ градѣ и борѧху сѧ крѣпко изъ града.
      olĭga že ustremi sę sŭ synŭmŭ svoimŭ, a derevlęne zatvoriša sę vŭ gradě i boręxu sę krěpko izŭ grada.
      Olga set forth with her son, but the Derevlians holed up in their stronghold and fought strenuously from their fortress.

Declension

Synonyms

Descendants

  • Russian: крепкий (krepkij)
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: кре̏пак
    Latin script: krȅpak
  • Bulgarian: крепък (krepǎk)

References

  • Mali staroslavensko-hrvatski rječnik, Matica hrvatska, Zagreb, 2004
  • Old Russian: Base Form Dictionary
  • S. C. Gardiner, Old church Slavonic: an elementary grammar, Cambridge University Press, 1984.