ptica

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pъtica, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *put-, from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (“to fly”). Cognate with English feather, pen, Ancient Greek πέτομαι (pétomai), πτέρυξ (ptérux) (whence pterodactyl, archæopteryx, Greek φτερό (fteró), πτηνό (ptinó)), Latin petō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ptît͡sa/
• Hyphenation: pti‧ca
• Rhymes: -it͡sa

Noun

ptȉca f (Cyrillic spelling пти̏ца)

1. bird
   • 2003, “Ptice u gradovima menjaju pesmu”, in BBC Njuz‎^[1]:

     Svaka ptica je imala repertoar od tri do devet različitih pesama.

     Each bird had a repertoire of three to nine different songs.

   Ona ima samo jednu pticu. ― She has only one bird.

Declension

Declension of ptica

	singular	plural
nominative	ptȉca	ptice
genitive	ptice	ptȋcā
dative	ptici	pticama
accusative	pticu	ptice
vocative	ptice	ptice
locative	ptici	pticama
instrumental	pticom	pticama

Synonyms

• ptič (Kajkavian)

Derived terms

• ptičica (diminutive)
• ptičurina (augmentative)
• ptičji
• ptičar

References

• “ptica” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pъtica.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ptìːt͡sa/

Noun

ptíca f

1. bird

Inflection

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	ptíca
gen. sing.	ptíce
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	ptíca	ptíci	ptíce
genitive (rodȋlnik)	ptíce	ptíc	ptíc
dative (dajȃlnik)	ptíci	ptícama	ptícam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	ptíco	ptíci	ptíce
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	ptíci	ptícah	ptícah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	ptíco	ptícama	ptícami

Synonyms

• ptìč

Further reading

• “ptica”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran