отец
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Bulgarian [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Proto-Slavic *otьcь, from Proto-Indo-European *átta.
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /oˈtɛts/
Noun [edit]
отец (otéc) m
Inflection [edit]
inflection of отец
Macedonian [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Proto-Slavic *otьcь, from Proto-Indo-European *átta.
Noun [edit]
отец • (otec) m
Russian [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Proto-Slavic *otьcь, from Proto-Indo-European *átta.
Noun [edit]
отец • (otéc) m animate, nom. pl. отцы (otcý)
- father
- крёстный оте́ц — godfather
- духо́вный оте́ц — confessor (see also духовник, исповедник)
- свято́й оте́ц — priest
- посажённый оте́ц — (at a wedding) proxy, sponsor
- отцов много, а мать одна́ (saying) — there are many fathers but only one mother
- не хвали́сь отцо́м, а хвали́сь сы́ном-молодцо́м (proverb) — don’t be proud of father, but take pride in a good son
- муж жене́ оте́ц, жена́ му́жу вене́ц (proverb) — a husband is a father to his wife, and the wife is a crown for him
- ancestor
- (figuratively) senior, superior, first of, chief
- familiar term of address for an elderly man
- (figuratively) (colloquial) referring to a man who cares about sоmеbody or something like a father
- (figuratively) (colloquial) founder, initiator of something
- Дарвин — отец тео́рии эволю́ции — Darwin is the founder of the theory of evolution
- оте́ц враче́бной нау́ки — father of medicine (about Hippocratus)
- отцы-основатели — Founding Fathers
- (figuratively) root, basis, source
- санскри́тский язы́к — оте́ц языко́в европе́йских — Sanskrit is a root of the Indo-European languages
- нужда́ оте́ц дога́дки (proverb) — (literally) need is the father of wit
Declension [edit]
declension of отец
Synonyms [edit]
- (father): батя, папа, папанька, папочка, папка, папаша, тятя
- (ancestor): праотец, предок
- (priest): батюшка, поп, священник
- (senior): пахан, старший
- (term of address): батя, папаша
Derived terms [edit]
Categories:
- Bulgarian terms derived from Proto-Slavic
- Bulgarian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Bulgarian nouns
- Macedonian terms derived from Proto-Slavic
- Macedonian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Macedonian masculine nouns
- Macedonian nouns
- Russian terms derived from Proto-Slavic
- Russian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Russian nouns
- Russian masculine nouns
- Russian animate nouns
- ru:Family