pustnic
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic поустиньникъ (pustinĭnikŭ), from поустꙑни (pustyni, “wilderness”) + -ьникъ (-ĭnikŭ), from Proto-Slavic *pustyni (“wilderness”), from *pustъ (“empty”).
Noun
pustnic m (plural pustnici, feminine equivalent pustnică)
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | pustnic | pustnicul | pustnici | pustnicii | |
| genitive-dative | pustnic | pustnicului | pustnici | pustnicilor | |
| vocative | pustnicule | pustnicilor | |||
Related terms
Further reading
- “pustnic”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025