inćun

See also: inçun and inčun

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Venetan inciò, from Ligurian anciôa, from Vulgar Latin *apiuva, from Latin aphyē, from Ancient Greek ἀφῠ́η (aphŭ́ē, “small fry”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ǐnt͡ɕuːn/
  • Hyphenation: in‧ćun

Noun

ìnćūn m anim (Cyrillic spelling ѝнћӯн)

  1. anchovy (small saltwater fish)

Declension

Declension of inćun
singular plural
nominative ìnćūn inćuni
genitive inćúna inćuna
dative inćunu inćunima
accusative inćuna inćune
vocative inćune inćuni
locative inćunu inćunima
instrumental inćunom inćunima

Descendants

  • → Albanian: inçun

References

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