jetra

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ętro, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁entrom. The noun was originally of neuter gender in Proto-Slavic and Proto-Indo-European, but since it was chiefly used in plural (with the ending -a for neuters) it became remodeled as a feminine singular noun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jêtra/
• Hyphenation: jet‧ra

Noun

jȅtra f (Cyrillic spelling је̏тра)

1. liver

   Synonym: džigerica

Declension

Declension of jetra

	singular	plural
nominative	jȅtra	jetre
genitive	jetre	jȅtārā / jȅtrī
dative	jetri	jetrama
accusative	jetru	jetre
vocative	jetro	jetre
locative	jetri	jetrama
instrumental	jetrom	jetrama

Related terms

• jetrica

References

• “jetra” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ętro, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁entrom.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jèːtra/

Noun

jẹ́tra n pl

1. liver (organ)

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Neuter, hard
nominative	jétra
genitive	jéter
	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	jétra
genitive (rodȋlnik)	—
dative (dajȃlnik)	—
accusative (tožȋlnik)	—
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	jétrih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	jétri

Further reading

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