capac
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قپاق (kapak, “lid; cover; shutter”), from Proto-Turkic *kapgak (“cover”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˈpak/
- Hyphenation: ca‧pac
Noun
capac n (plural capace)
Declension
singular | plural | ||||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | capac | capacul | capace | capacele | |
genitive-dative | capac | capacului | capace | capacelor | |
vocative | capacule | capacelor |
References
- ^ Paliga, Sorin (2024) An Etymological Dictionary of the Romanian Language, New York: Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 213
Further reading
- “capac”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025