cilvēciskums
Latvian
Etymology
From cilvēcisks (“human”) + -ums (with cilvēcisks from cilvēks (“person, human being”) + -isks, with palatalization of k to c).
Noun
cilvēciskums m (1st declension)
- humanness (the quality of that which is human)
- viņu rakstura zīmējumā trūkst tipisko detaļu, trūkst tā cilvēciskuma, par ko viņus varētu iemīlēt vai ienīst ― in the depiction of their (= characters') personality, typical (human) details are missing, that humanness is missing through which one could love or hate them
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | cilvēciskums | — |
| genitive | cilvēciskuma | — |
| dative | cilvēciskumam | — |
| accusative | cilvēciskumu | — |
| instrumental | cilvēciskumu | — |
| locative | cilvēciskumā | — |
| vocative | cilvēciskum | — |