šķīstums
Latvian
Etymology
From šķīsts (“pure, virtuous, chaste”) + -ums.
Pronunciation
Noun
šķīstums f (4th declension)
- (religion) purity (the state of one who is without sin)
- Kad pirmajā ainā Dons Zuans pamanīja skumjo, melni tērpto sievietes stāvu, viņa iztēle radīja debesu šķīstuma un ideāla skaistuma tēlu ― when in the first scene Dons Zuans (= Don Giovanni, Don Juan) noticed the sad female figure dressed in dark (clothes), his imagination created a character of heavenly purity and ideal beauty
- (moral) purity, virtuousness (the state of one who is morally pure, virtuous)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | šķīstums | — |
| genitive | šķīstuma | — |
| dative | šķīstumam | — |
| accusative | šķīstumu | — |
| instrumental | šķīstumu | — |
| locative | šķīstumā | — |
| vocative | šķīstum | — |