zinātnība

See also: zinātnībā

Latvian

Etymology

A neologism, created from zinātne (science) + -ība in the second half of the 18th century by Juris Alunāns, later (1878) officially changed to zinība by a commission of the Riga Latvian society, and finally replaced by A. Kronvalds coinage zinātne, which became the standard form in the beginning of the 20th century.[1]

Noun

zinātnība f (4th declension)

  1. (obsolete term) science

Declension

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References

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