предел

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Macedonian

Pronunciation

Noun

предел (predelm

  1. region, area
  2. compartment

Declension

Russian

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Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic прѣдѣлъ (prědělŭ). Doublet of переде́л (peredél), the inherited East Slavic form.

Pronunciation

Noun

преде́л (predélm inan (genitive преде́ла, nominative plural преде́лы, genitive plural преде́лов, relational adjective преде́льный)

  1. limit, boundary, margin
    • 1862, Иван Тургенев [Ivan Turgenev], “Глава 16”, in Отцы и дети; English translation from Richard Hare, transl., Fathers and Sons, 1947:
      Воображе́ние её уноси́лось да́же за преде́лы того́, что по зако́нам обыкнове́нной мора́ли счита́ется дозво́ленным; но и тогда́ кровь её по-пре́жнему ти́хо кати́лась в её обая́тельно стро́йном и споко́йном те́ле.
      Voobražénije jejó unosílosʹ dáže za predély tovó, što po zakónam obyknovénnoj moráli sčitájetsja dozvólennym; no i togdá krovʹ jejó po-préžnemu tíxo katílasʹ v jejó obajátelʹno strójnom i spokójnom téle.
      Her imagination certainly overstepped the limits of conventional morality, but all the time her blood flowed as quietly as ever in her charmingly graceful, tranquil body.
    • 1964, Братья Стругацкие [Arkady and Boris Strugatsky], “История первая. Суета вокруг дивана. Глава шестая”, in Понедельник начинается в субботу, Детская литература; English translation from Leonid Renen, transl., Monday Begins on Saturday, New York: DAW Books, 1977:
      Собира́я посте́ль и де́лая заря́дку, я размышля́л о том, что существу́ет, вероя́тно, не́который преде́л спосо́бности к удивле́нию.
      Sobirája postélʹ i délaja zarjádku, ja razmyšljál o tom, što suščestvújet, verojátno, nékotoryj predél sposóbnosti k udivléniju.
      Picking up the bedding and doing my exercises, I cogitated that there probably existed some limit to the capacity of being surprised.
  2. border
  3. (in the plural) precincts
  4. (mathematics) limit

Declension

Synonyms

Serbo-Croatian

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Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic прѣдѣлъ (prědělŭ), Proto-Slavic *perdělъ

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /prěːdel/
  • Hyphenation: пре‧дел

Noun

пре́дел m (Latin spelling prédel)

  1. (linguistics) district

Declension

References

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “предел”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress