pustnic

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic поустиньникъ (pustinĭnikŭ), from поустꙑни (pustyni, “wilderness”) +‎ -ьникъ (-ĭnikŭ), from Proto-Slavic *pustyni (“wilderness”), from *pustъ (“empty”).

Noun

pustnic m (plural pustnici, feminine equivalent pustnică)

1. hermit, recluse

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	pustnic	pustnicul	pustnici	pustnicii
genitive-dative	pustnic	pustnicului	pustnici	pustnicilor
vocative	pustnicule		pustnicilor

Related terms

• pustiu
• pustă

Further reading

• “pustnic”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026