вековен

Bulgarian

Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European *weyk-der.

Proto-Balto-Slavic *wáikas

Proto-Slavic *věkъ

Old Church Slavonic вѣкъ (věkŭ)

Bulgarian век (vek)

Bulgarian -о́вен (-óven)

Bulgarian вековен

From век (vek, “age”) + -о́вен (-óven).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [vɛˈkɔvɛn]

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• Rhymes: -ɔvɛn
• Syllabification^(key): ве‧ко‧вен

Adjective

веко́вен • (vekóven) (adverb веко́вно)

1. centurial (spanning a century or more)

   вековна традиция ― vekovna tradicija ― centurial [“very old”] tradition

   вековно дърво ― vekovno dărvo ― century-old tree

Usage notes

When a number of centuries needs to be specified, the number is compounded ahead of the lemma:

• пет-вековно робство ― pet-vekovno robstvo ― five-century-long serfdom
• петнадесет-вековна история ― petnadeset-vekovna istorija ― 15-century-long history

Declension

Declension of веко́вен (no comparative)

	singular			plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter
indefinite	веко́вен vekóven	веко́вна vekóvna	веко́вно vekóvno	веко́вни vekóvni
definite (subject form)	веко́вният vekóvnijat	веко́вната vekóvnata	веко́вното vekóvnoto	веко́вните vekóvnite
definite (object form)	веко́вния vekóvnija

Derived terms

• многовеко́вен (mnogovekóven), дълговеко́вен (dălgovekóven, “lasting many centuries”)
• средновеко́вен (srednovekóven, “medieval”)

Related terms

• ве́ков (vékov, “age-old”) (dated)
• ве́чен (véčen, “eternal”)

References

• “вековен”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “вековен”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010

Macedonian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɛkɔvɛn]

Adjective

вековен • (vekoven) (not comparable)

1. century-long, centuried

Declension

Declension of вековен

	masculine	feminine	neuter	plural
indefinite	вековен (vekoven)	вековна (vekovna)	вековно (vekovno)	вековни (vekovni)
definite unspecified	вековниот (vekovniot)	вековната (vekovnata)	вековното (vekovnoto)	вековните (vekovnite)
definite proximal	вековниов (vekovniov)	вековнава (vekovnava)	вековново (vekovnovo)	вековниве (vekovnive)
definite distal	вековнион (vekovnion)	вековнана (vekovnana)	вековноно (vekovnono)	вековнине (vekovnine)