blitva

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dalmatian *bliatua, hypothetical metathesized form of Latin betula, with regular diphthongization of stressed e into ia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /blîtʋa/
  • Hyphenation: bli‧tva

Noun

blȉtva f (Cyrillic spelling бли̏тва)

  1. chard
  2. beet as a whole plant

Declension

Declension of blitva
singular plural
nominative blitva blitve
genitive blitve blitva
dative blitvi blitvama
accusative blitvu blitve
vocative blitvo blitve
locative blitvi blitvama
instrumental blitvom blitvama

Further reading

  • “blitva”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.