kupus

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Kappus (“cabbage”), with the first -u- coming by merger with another word with the same meaning. Compare dialectal Serbo-Croatian kapuc, kapus (from Venetian capuzzo), and also Old Serbo-Croatian (Kajkavian) kupust (ultimately from Latin composita (“mixed”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kǔpus/
  • Hyphenation: ku‧pus

Noun

kùpus m (Cyrillic spelling ку̀пус)

  1. cabbage

Declension
Declension of kupus
singular
nominative kupus
genitive kupusa
dative kupusu
accusative kupus
vocative kupuse
locative kupusu
instrumental kupusom

References
  • “kupus” in Hrvatski jezični portal
  • Gluhak, Alemko (1993) Hrvatski etimološki rječnik (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: August Cesarec, page 360
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.