zaldāts
Latvian
Etymology
Borrowed from German Soldat, itself a borrowing from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian soldato, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Vulgar Latin solidatus (“salaried (soldier)”). The word was borrowed into (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German in the first half of the 16th century, and into (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latvian probably between the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th century. Its first mentions are in 17th-century sources.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
zaldāts m (1st declension)
- (dated) soldier (especially in the czar's or in the German army)
- (aiz)iet zaldātos ― to start military service (lit. to go to the soldiers)
- noņemt zaldātos ― to recruit (lit. to take into the soldiers' )
- zaldātu nauda ― soldier's money (historically, money paid to escape military duty)
- stāt kā zaldāts ― to stand like a soldier (i.e., perfectly upright)
- vecs Pirmā pasaules kara zaldāts ― an old World War I soldier
Usage notes
The words karavīrs and kareivis have mostly replaced zaldāts in contemporary usage.
Declension
Declension of zaldāts (1st declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
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nominative (nominatīvs) | zaldāts | zaldāti |
accusative (akuzatīvs) | zaldātu | zaldātus |
genitive (ģenitīvs) | zaldāta | zaldātu |
dative (datīvs) | zaldātam | zaldātiem |
instrumental (instrumentālis) | zaldātu | zaldātiem |
locative (lokatīvs) | zaldātā | zaldātos |
vocative (vokatīvs) | zaldāt | zaldāti |
Synonyms
References
- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “zaldāts”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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