часціца

Belarusian

Alternative forms

часьці́ца (časʹcíca) — Taraškievica orthography
čaścica — Łacinka (Belarusian Latin alphabet)

Etymology

часць (čascʹ, “(obsolete) part”) +‎ -іца (-ica, diminutive suffix), possibly as a calque of Latin particula. Compare Russian части́ца (častíca), Serbo-Croatian čestica.

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “was the Russian term a Latin calque which was then borrowed into Belarusian, or did Belarusian develop the calque in parallel to the Russian one?”

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [t͡ʂaˈsʲt͡sʲit͡sa]

Noun

часці́ца • (čascíca) f inan (genitive часці́цы, nominative plural часці́цы, genitive plural часці́ц)

(physics) particle
(grammar) particle

Declension

Declension of часці́ца (inan hard fem-form accent-a)

	singular	plural
nominative	часці́ца čascíca	часці́цы čascícy
genitive	часці́цы čascícy	часці́ц čascíc
dative	часці́цы čascícy	часці́цам čascícam
accusative	часці́цу čascícu	часці́цы čascícy
instrumental	часці́цай, часці́цаю čascícaj, čascícaju	часці́цамі čascícami
locative	часці́цы čascícy	часці́цах čascícax
count form	—	часці́цы¹ čascícy¹

¹Used with the numbers 2, 3, 4 and higher numbers after 20 ending in 2, 3, and 4.

References

“часціца”, in Skarnik's Belarusian dictionary (in Belarusian), based on Kandrat Krapiva's Explanatory Dictionary of the Belarusian Language (1977-1984)
“часціца” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org