kopile
Serbo-Croatian
editEtymology
editUncertain. Possibly from Proto-Slavic *kopylъ (“shoot, sprout; bastard”), from *kopàti (“to dig, cultivate”); compare Ukrainian копил (kopyl) or копиля (kopylja), Bulgarian ко́пеле (kópele). Alternatively an old paleo-Balkan substrate word; compare Romanian copil, Aromanian cochil, Albanian kopil, Byzantine Greek κόπελος (kópelos). First attested in the 17th century.[1]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editkȍpile n (Cyrillic spelling ко̏пиле)
- (derogatory) bastard (illegitimate child)
Declension
editsingular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | kopile | kopilad |
genitive | kopileta | kopiladi |
dative | kopiletu | kopiladi |
accusative | kopile | kopilad |
vocative | kopile | kopiladi |
locative | kopiletu | kopiladi |
instrumental | kopiletom | kopilađu / kopiladi |
References
edit- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2016) “kopile”, in Dunja Brozović Rončević, Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes I: A—Nj, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 478
Further reading
edit- “kopile”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
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