cepums
Latvian
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Etymology
[edit]From cep(t) (“to bake”) + -ums.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cepums m (1st declension)
- (usually singular) something roasted, fried, baked
- vakardienas cepuma maize ― yesterday's bread (lit. yesterday's baked bread
- tuvojas pusdienas, un virtuvē kaut kas cepas... čurkst tauki, un cepuma smarža kutina mūsu degunus ― lunch time was near, and something was being fried in the kitchen... frying noises, and the smell of something fried tickled our noses
- cookie, biscuit, cracker, shortbread (small pastries mostly made of flour, sugar, fat and eggs)
- cukura cepumi ― (sugar) cookies
- sāļie cepumi ― crackers (lit. salty cookies)
- sviesta cepumi ― butter cookies
- cietie cepumi ― hard cookies
- sausie cepumi ― dry cookies, biscuits
- trauslie cepumi ― brittle cookies
- smilšu cepumi ― shortbread (lit. sand cookies)
- kopējā maizes deva, cepumus ieskaitot, bērna dienas uzturā ir 100-200 gramu ― the total amount of bread, including cookies, in the (suggested) daily diet of a child is 100-200 grams
- glāzēs salieta tēja, un stikla traukā ir cepumi... tie vēl silti, smaržo pēc riekstiem ― tea had been poured into the glasses, and there were cookies on the glass tray... these (were) still warm and smelled of nuts
Declension
[edit]Declension of cepums (1st declension)
| singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative (nominatīvs) | cepums | cepumi |
| accusative (akuzatīvs) | cepumu | cepumus |
| genitive (ģenitīvs) | cepuma | cepumu |
| dative (datīvs) | cepumam | cepumiem |
| instrumental (instrumentālis) | cepumu | cepumiem |
| locative (lokatīvs) | cepumā | cepumos |
| vocative (vokatīvs) | cepum | cepumi |