кладезь
Russian
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic кладѧѕь (kladędzĭ, “well”); compare the inherited doublet коло́дезь (kolódezʹ).
Pronunciation
Noun
кла́дезь • (kládezʹ) m inan (genitive кла́дезя, nominative plural кла́дези, genitive plural кла́дезей)
- (literary, figurative) fount, treasury, storehouse (abundant, inexhaustible source of something, e.g. knowledge)
- кла́дезь му́дрости ― kládezʹ múdrosti ― fount of wisdom; mine / fountain of information
Declension
Declension of кла́дезь (inan masc-form soft-stem accent-a)
Related terms
- коло́дезь (kolódezʹ), коло́дезный (kolódeznyj), коло́дезник (kolódeznik)
- коло́дец (kolódec)
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