отец
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[edit] Bulgarian
[edit] Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *otьcь, from Proto-Indo-European *átta.
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /o'tɛʦ/
[edit] Noun
отец (otéc) m.
[edit] Inflection
inflection of отец
[edit] Macedonian
[edit] Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *otьcь, from Proto-Indo-European *átta.
[edit] Noun
отец m.
[edit] Russian
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *otьcь, from Proto-Indo-European *átta.
[edit] Noun
отец (otéts) m., отцы (ottsý) pl.
- 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
[edit] Declension
declension of отец
[edit] Synonyms
- (father): батя, папа, папанька, папочка, папка, папаша, тятя
- (ancestor): праотец, предок
- (priest): батюшка, поп, священник
- (senior): пахан, старший
- (term of address): батя, папаша
