inćun

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Venetan inciò, from Ligurian anciôa, from Vulgar Latin *apiuva, from Latin aphyē, from Ancient Greek ἀφῠ́η (aphúē, “small fry”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǐnt͡ɕuːn/
• Hyphenation: in‧ćun

Noun

ìnćūn m (Cyrillic spelling ѝнћӯн)

1. anchovy (small saltwater fish)

Declension

Declension of inćun

	singular	plural
nominative	ìnćūn	inćuni
genitive	inćúna	inćuna
dative	inćunu	inćunima
accusative	inćuna	inćune
vocative	inćune	inćuni
locative	inćunu	inćunima
instrumental	inćunom	inćunima

Descendants

• → Albanian: inçun

References

• “inćun”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024