kāposti

Latvian

Kāposti

Etymology

Borrowed from Old East Slavic капуста (kapusta) (cf. Russian капу́ста (kapústa)), itself a borrowing based on the merging of two Latin words, caputium (“head of cabbage”) and compos(i)ta (“compound vegetables”). This word must have been borrowed before the 13th century, when Old East Slavic у was still pronounced as o. Its first occurrence is in 16th-century dictionaries.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kàːpuôsti]

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Noun

kāposti m (1st declension)

1. cabbage (a type of leafy vegetable, especially Brassica oleracea)

   audzēt kāpostus ― to grow cabbage

   kāpostu galviņa, kāpostgalviņa ― head of cabbage

   vārīt kāpostus ― to boil cabbage

   kāpostu pīrāgs ― cabbage pie

Usage notes

There is a singular form kāposts, only sporadically attested.

Declension

Declension of kāposti (1st declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	—	kāposti
accusative (akuzatīvs)	—	kāpostus
genitive (ģenitīvs)	—	kāpostu
dative (datīvs)	—	kāpostiem
instrumental (instrumentālis)	—	kāpostiem
locative (lokatīvs)	—	kāpostos
vocative (vokatīvs)	—	kāposti