купус

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Kappus (“cabbage”), with the first -у- coming by merger with another word with the same meaning. Compare dialectal Serbo-Croatian капуц, капус (from Venetan capuzzo), and also Old Serbo-Croatian (Kajkavian) kupust (ultimately from Latin composita (“mixed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kǔpus/
• Hyphenation: ку‧пус

Noun

ку̀пус m (Latin spelling kùpus)

1. cabbage

Declension

Declension of купус

	singular
nominative	купус
genitive	купуса
dative	купусу
accusative	купус
vocative	купусе
locative	купусу
instrumental	купусом

References

• “купус”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
• Gluhak, Alemko (1993) “купус”, in Hrvatski etimološki rječnik [Croatian Etymology Dictionary] (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: August Cesarec, →ISBN, page 360