ceptaŕ

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Präzeptor, from Latin praeceptor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɛptarʲ/

Noun

ceptaŕ m anim (feminine ceptarka)

1. teacher (at a secondary school)

Declension

Declension of ceptaŕ

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ceptaŕ	ceptarja	ceptarje
Genitive	ceptarja	ceptarjowu	ceptarjow
Dative	ceptarjoju	ceptarjoma	ceptarjam
Accusative	ceptarja	ceptarjowu	ceptarje, ceptarjow
Instrumental	ceptarjom	ceptarjoma	ceptarjami
Locative	ceptarju	ceptarjoma	ceptarjach

Synonyms

• šulaŕ (at a primary school)
• wucabnik (teacher in general)

Derived terms

• ceptariś
• ceptarjowy
• ceptarski

References

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “ceptaŕ”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “ceptaŕ”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
• Lower Sorbian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.