slimnieks

Latvian

Etymology

From slims (“sick, ill”) +‎ -nieks. A neologism coined in the late 18th century by Gotthard Friedrich Stender.[1]

Noun

slimnieks m (1st declension, feminine form: slimniece)

  1. (male) sick person, patient (i.e., a person (especially a man) having a health problem)
    gripas slimnieks ― flu patient
    nieru slimnieks ― kidney patient
    izmeklēt slimnieku ― to investigate the patient
    smags slimnieks ― heavy (= severely sick) patient
    hronisks slimnieks ― chronic patient

Declension
Declension of slimnieks (1st declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) slimnieks slimnieki
accusative (akuzatīvs) slimnieku slimniekus
genitive (ģenitīvs) slimnieka slimnieku
dative (datīvs) slimniekam slimniekiem
instrumental (instrumentālis) slimnieku slimniekiem
locative (lokatīvs) slimniekā slimniekos
vocative (vokatīvs) slimniek slimnieki

References
  1. Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “slims”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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