kotač

See also: kotac

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kotačь. First attested in the 18th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kǒtaːt͡ʃ/
• Hyphenation: ko‧tač

Noun

kòtāč m inan (Cyrillic spelling ко̀та̄ч)

1. (chiefly Croatia) wheel

   Srbi i Hrvati su jedan te isti komad kravlje balege koji je kotač zaprežnih kola povijesti slučajno prerezao na pola. ― Serbs and Croats are one and the same piece of cow dung that the wheel of history accidentally cut in half. (quote by Miroslav Krleža)

Declension

Declension of kotač

	singular	plural
nominative	kòtāč	kotači
genitive	kotáča	kotača
dative	kotaču	kotačima
accusative	kotač	kotače
vocative	kotaču	kotači
locative	kotaču	kotačima
instrumental	kotačem	kotačima

Synonyms

• (Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro) točak
• kolo

Further reading

• “kotač”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026