sedmica

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sedmica. Equivalent to sȅdam +‎ -ica.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /sědmit͡sa/
  • Hyphenation: sed‧mi‧ca
  • Rhymes: -it͡sa

Noun

sèdmica f (Cyrillic spelling сѐдмица)

  1. (regional, Bosnia) week
    Synonym: (Croatian) tjȅdan
  2. seven (digit or figure)
  3. anything numbered seven (playing card, tram, bus, player with a jersey number 7 etc.)

Declension
Declension of sedmica
singular plural
nominative sedmica sedmice
genitive sedmice sedmica
dative sedmici sedmicama
accusative sedmicu sedmice
vocative sedmice / sedmico sedmice
locative sedmici sedmicama
instrumental sedmicom sedmicama

Synonyms

See also
Playing cards in Serbo-Croatian · igraće karte (layout · text)
as, kec dvojka, dvica trojka, trica četvorka, četvrtica petica šestica sedmica
osmica devetka, devetica desetka, desetica dečko, pub, žandar, fant kraljica, dama kralj džoker

Further reading
  • “sedmica” in Hrvatski jezični portal
  • Drago Grdenić, editor (1953-1955), “sedmica”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika‎ (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 14, Zagreb: JAZU, page 795
  • Skok, Petar (1973) “sedam”, in Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika [Etymological Dictionary of the Croatian or Serbian Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 3 (poni² – Ž), Zagreb: JAZU, page 212
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