štit

See also: stit, stít, štít, and -stit

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• ščit (Croatia, dialectal)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ščitъ (“shield”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *skeitum, *skoitum, from Proto-Indo-European *skey-to-m, from *skey- (“to cut, separate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃtîːt/

Noun

štȋt m inan (Cyrillic spelling шти̑т)

1. shield

Declension

Declension of štit

	singular	plural
nominative	štȋt	štìtovi
genitive	štȋta	štìtōvā
dative	štȋtu	štìtovima
accusative	štȋt	štìtove
vocative	štȋte	štìtovi
locative	štȋtu	štìtovima
instrumental	štȋtom	štìtovima

Derived terms

nouns

• mekoštitka

Further reading

• “štit”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025