prosinac
Appearance
Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]- (December): Uncertain. Morphologically possibly from pro- (“through”) + sȋnjī (“gray; of the colour of ash”). Etymology of Christian source describes it as a month of "praying" (compare pròsiti (“to pray”)). Other sources speculate that, since it's the month of Sun's solstice, it would be the month in which the Sun "starts glowing" (compare prosínuti (“to start glowing”)). Cognate to Czech prosinec.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pròsinac m (Cyrillic spelling про̀синац)
- (Croatia) December
- Synonym: dècēmbar
- u prosincu ― in December
- dvadeset petog prosinca ― on the twenty-fifth of December
- mercury (Mercurialis gen. et spp.)
Declension
[edit]Declension of prosinac
singular | plural | |
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nominative | pròsinac | prosinci |
genitive | pròsīnca | prosinaca |
dative | prosincu | prosincima |
accusative | prosinac | prosince |
vocative | prosinče | prosinci |
locative | prosincu | prosincima |
instrumental | prosincem | prosincima |
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]- (Gregorian calendar months) m(j)eseci gregorijanskog kalendara; januar/siječanj, februar/veljača, mart/ožujak, april/travanj, maj/svibanj, jun/juni/lipanj, jul/juli/srpanj, avgust/august/kolovoz, septembar/rujan, oktobar/listopad, novembar/studeni, decembar/prosinac (Category: sh:Gregorian calendar months)