pakao

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pьkъlъ, from Proto-Indo-European *pik- (“pitch”). Cognate with Bulgarian пъкъл (pǎkǎl), Slovene pekel, Slovak peklo, Ukrainian пекло (peklo), German Pech. Akin to Latin pix (“pitch, tar”). The meaning "hell" is a semantic loan from Old Polish piekło, which arose under the Christian influence (sinners are submerged in boiling tar in hell).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pǎkao/
  • Hyphenation: pa‧ka‧o

Noun

pàkao m inan (Cyrillic spelling па̀као)

  1. hell
    Dobro došli u pakao, gospodo. ― Welcome to hell, gentlemen.

Declension

Declension of pakao
singular plural
nominative pàkao pakli
genitive pakla pakálā
dative paklu paklima
accusative pakao pakle
vocative pakle pakli
locative paklu paklima
instrumental paklom paklima

Further reading

  • “pakao”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
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