česmina

See also: cesmína

Serbo-Croatian
česmina – Ilex aquifolium
česmina – Berberis vulgaris
česmina – Quercus ilex
česmina – Quercus trojana

Alternative forms

Etymology

From čèsati, čèšati (“to scratch”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃěsmina/

Noun

čèsmina f (Cyrillic spelling чѐсмина)

  1. common holly, Ilex aquifolium
  2. common barberry, Berberis vulgaris
  3. holm oak, Quercus ilex
  4. Macedonian oak, Quercus trojana (syn. Quercus macedonica)

Declension
Declension of česmina
singular plural
nominative česmina česmine
genitive česmine česmina
dative česmini česminama
accusative česminu česmine
vocative česmino česmine
locative česmini česminama
instrumental česminom česminama

Descendants
  • → Russian Church Slavonic: чесмина (česmina), чрѣсмина (črěsmina), чересмина (čeresmina)
    • → Russian: чесми́на (česmína) (only known from Даль)
  • → Czech: cesmína
  • → Slovak: cezmína
  • → Slovene: česmína, česmȋn

References
  • Kolari, Veli (1993) “Zur Entstehung einer semantischen Nord/Süd-Dichotomie in Benennungen einiger Gehölze ur- bzw. gemeinslavischer Provenienz”, in Studia Slavica Finlandensia (in German), volume X, Helsinki, page 19
  • Snoj, Marko (2016) “češmȋn”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar‎ (in Slovene), 3rd edition, Ljubljana: Inštitut za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, pages 114–115
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “чесмина”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Будиловичъ, Антонъ Семеновичъ (1878) Первобытные славяне въ ихъ языкѣ, бытѣ и понятіяхъ по даннымъ лексикальнымъ. Изслѣдованія въ области лингвистической палеонтологіи славянъ. Часть первая, Kiev, page 130, Copy 2, Copy 3
  • Будиловичъ, Антонъ Семеновичъ (1878) Первобытные славяне въ ихъ языкѣ, бытѣ и понятіяхъ по даннымъ лексикальнымъ. Изслѣдованія въ области лингвистической палеонтологіи славянъ. Часть первая, Kiev, page 139, Copy 2, Copy 3
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “česminъ/*česmina”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 4 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 88

Slovene

Alternative forms
  • česmȋn

Etymology

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian čèsmina, or inherited from the latest common ancestor of Slovene and Serbo-Croatian.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃɛsmìːna/

Noun

česmína f

  1. common holly, Ilex aquifolium
  2. common barberry, Berberis vulgaris

Inflection
The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing. česmína
gen. sing. česmíne
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik)		 česmína česmíni česmíne
genitive
(rodȋlnik)		 česmíne česmín česmín
dative
(dajȃlnik)		 česmíni česmínama česmínam
accusative
(tožȋlnik)		 česmíno česmíni česmíne
locative
(mẹ̑stnik)		 česmíni česmínah česmínah
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik)		 česmíno česmínama česmínami

Further reading
  • “česmina”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
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