dailininkas
Lithuanian
Etymology
dailė (“(visual) art”) + -ininkas (“agentive suffix”)
Noun
dai̇̃lininkas m (plural dai̇̃lininkai, feminine dai̇̃lininkė) stress pattern 1
- artist, visual artist
- Hypernym: menininkas
Usage notes
- menininkas has the broadest sense and refers to any person who produces any kind of art: this could include music, poetry, painting, etc.
- dailininkas refers to any person who produces visual art, such as paintings or sculptures.
- artistas, on the other hand, is most commonly used to refer to performance artists: actors, dancers, and so forth.
Declension
| singular (vienaskaita) |
plural (daugiskaita) | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative (vardininkas) | dai̇̃lininkas | dai̇̃lininkai |
| genitive (kilmininkas) | dai̇̃lininko | dai̇̃lininkų |
| dative (naudininkas) | dai̇̃lininkui | dai̇̃lininkams |
| accusative (galininkas) | dai̇̃lininką | dai̇̃lininkus |
| instrumental (įnagininkas) | dai̇̃lininku | dai̇̃lininkais |
| locative (vietininkas) | dai̇̃lininke | dai̇̃lininkuose |
| vocative (šauksmininkas) | dai̇̃lininke | dai̇̃lininkai |
References
- “dailininkas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2025