отрок
Russian edit
Alternative forms edit
- о́трокъ (ótrok) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *otrokъ.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
о́трок • (ótrok) m anim (genitive о́трока, nominative plural о́троки, genitive plural о́троков, feminine отрокови́ца or отрочи́ца)
- (archaic, poetic or ironic) boy, adolescent (7–12 years old)
- (historical) junior retainer, soldier (in a medieval prince's armed retinue)
- Hypernym: дружи́нник (družínnik)
Declension edit
Declension of о́трок (anim masc-form velar-stem accent-a)
Derived terms edit
- о́троческий (ótročeskij)
- о́трочество (ótročestvo)
Further reading edit
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “отрок”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress