Serbo-Croatian edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sedmica. Equivalent to sȅdam +‎ -ica.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /sědmit͡sa/
  • Hyphenation: sed‧mi‧ca
  • Rhymes: -it͡sa

Noun edit

sèdmica f (Cyrillic spelling сѐдмица)

  1. (regional, Bosnia) week
    Synonym: (Croatian) tjȅdan
  2. seven (digit or figure)
  3. anything numbered seven (playing card, tram, bus, player with a jersey number 7 etc.)

Declension edit

Synonyms edit

See also edit

Playing cards in Serbo-Croatian · igraće karte (layout · text)
             
as, kec dvojka, dvica trojka, trica četvorka, četvrtica petica šestica sedmica
             
osmica devetka, devetica desetka, desetica dečko, pub, žandar, fant kraljica, dama kralj džoker

Further reading edit

  • sedmica” in Hrvatski jezični portal
  • Drago Grdenić, editor (1953-1955), “sedmica”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 14, Zagreb: JAZU, page 795
  • Skok, Petar (1973), “sedam”, in Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika [Etymological Dictionary of the Croatian or Serbian Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 3 (poni² – Ž), Zagreb: JAZU, page 212