тунеядец

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Russian

Etymology

Compound formed from тоуне (tune) 'given freely; for no purpose' (also found in the adverb втуне), and *ядец, 'eater' (related to еда 'food').

Pronunciation

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Noun

тунея́дец • (tunejádec) m anim (genitive тунея́дца, nominative plural тунея́дцы, genitive plural тунея́дцев, feminine тунея́дка)

idler, parasite, freeloader
Synonyms: безде́льник (bezdélʹnik), дармое́д (darmojéd), лентя́й (lentjáj)
- 1860, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, An Honest Thief:
  Пьянчу́жка тако́й, потаску́н, тунея́дец служи́л пре́жде где́-то, да его́ за пья́ную жизнь уж давно́ из слу́жбы вы́ключили.
  Pʹjančúžka takój, potaskún, tunejádec služíl préžde gdé-to, da jevó za pʹjánuju žiznʹ už davnó iz slúžby výključili.
  A drunk and a rake, the idler had served somewhere in the past but had been expelled from service long ago for his drunken lifestyle.

Declension

Declension of тунея́дец (anim masc-form ц-stem accent-a reduc)

	singular	plural
nominative	тунея́дец tunejádec	тунея́дцы tunejádcy
genitive	тунея́дца tunejádca	тунея́дцев tunejádcev
dative	тунея́дцу tunejádcu	тунея́дцам tunejádcam
accusative	тунея́дца tunejádca	тунея́дцев tunejádcev
instrumental	тунея́дцем tunejádcem	тунея́дцами tunejádcami
prepositional	тунея́дце tunejádce	тунея́дцах tunejádcax

Related terms

тунея́дка f (tunejádka), тунея́дство n (tunejádstvo)

References

^{The template Template:R:ru:Tsyganenko does not use the parameter(s): page=439
Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.}Tsyhanenko, H. P. (1989) “тунеядец”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Kyiv: Radjanska shkola, →ISBN

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