ptica

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pъtica, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (“to fly”). Cognate with English feather, pen, Ancient Greek πέτομαι (pétomai), πτέρυξ (ptérux) (whence pterodactyl, archæopteryx, Greek φτερό (fteró), πτηνό (ptinó)), Latin petō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ptîtsa/
• Hyphenation: pti‧ca

Noun

ptȉca f (Cyrillic spelling пти̏ца)

1. bird

Declension

Declension of ptica

	singular	plural
nominative	ptȉca	ptice
genitive	ptice	ptȋcā
dative	ptici	pticama
accusative	pticu	ptice
vocative	ptico	ptice
locative	ptici	pticama
instrumental	pticom	pticama

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Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pъtica.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ptìːt͡sa/

Noun

ptíca f

1. bird

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	ptíca
gen. sing.	ptíce
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	ptíca	ptíci	ptíce
genitive (rodȋlnik)	ptíce	ptíc	ptíc
dative (dajȃlnik)	ptíci	ptícama	ptícam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	ptíco	ptíci	ptíce
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	ptíci	ptícah	ptícah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	ptíco	ptícama	ptícami

Synonyms

• ptìč

Further reading

• “ptica”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran