Klaić
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Alternative spelling of Klajić, omitting the non-phonemic ⟨j⟩.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /klǎːit͡ɕ/
- Hyphenation: Kla‧ić
Proper noun
Kláić m anim (Cyrillic spelling Кла́ић)
- a Serbo-Croatian surname
- (Croatia, metonymic) Rječnik stranih riječi (A Dictionary of Foreign Words, 1st ed. 1951) by Bratoljub Klaić
- 2023 October 14, Feđa Gavrilović, “Zabranjeni trg”, in Jutarnji list[1], number 9039, Zagreb, page 15:
- Oduzeti građanima trg [...] znak je potpune odvojenosti vladajuće elite od naroda i od onoga što bi republika trebala značiti, već prema samom korijenu te riječi (otvorite Klaića ako ste toliko zabrazdili u hrvatskoj političkoj svakodnevici da ste to zaboravili).
- To take the public square away from the citizens [...] is a sign of the ruling elite's complete disconnect from the people and from what a republic should signify, by the very root of that word (open a Klaić if you've ended up stuck so deep in Croatian political humdrum to the point of forgetting it).
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | Klaić | Klaići |
| genitive | Klaića | Klaićā |
| dative | Klaiću | Klaićima |
| accusative | Klaića | Klaiće |
| vocative | Klaiću | Klaići |
| locative | Klaiću | Klaićima |
| instrumental | Klaićem | Klaićima |
References
- “Klaić”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025 (kljȁst)
- “Klaić”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025 (Kláić)
- Skok, Petar (1972) “kljȁst”, in Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika [Etymological Dictionary of the Croatian or Serbian Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 2 (K – poni¹), Zagreb: JAZU, page 104