kopile

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from Proto-Slavic *kopylъ (“shoot, sprout; bastard”), from *kopàti (“to dig, cultivate”); compare Ukrainian копил (kopyl) or копиля (kopylja), Bulgarian ко́пеле (kópele). Alternatively an old paleo-Balkan substrate word; compare Romanian copil, Aromanian cochil, Albanian kopil, Byzantine Greek κόπελος (kópelos). First attested in the 17th century.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kôpile/
  • Hyphenation: ko‧pi‧le

Noun

kȍpile n (Cyrillic spelling ко̏пиле)

  1. (derogatory) bastard (illegitimate child)

Declension

Declension of kopile
singular plural
nominative kopile kopilad
genitive kopileta kopiladi
dative kopiletu kopiladi
accusative kopile kopilad
vocative kopile kopiladi
locative kopiletu kopiladi
instrumental kopiletom kopilađu / kopiladi

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2016) “kopile”, in Dunja Brozović Rončević, Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes I: A—Nj, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 478

Further reading

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