kacadre
Albanian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From kaca- + dre (“deer”).[1][2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kacadre m (plural kacadrenj, definite kacadreri)
- stag beetle (Lucanus cervus)
- Synonym: buall
- (archaic) locust, grasshopper
- Synonym: karkalec
- 1635, Pjetër Bogdani, Cuneus Prophetarum, scala 3, discorso 10, page 137, lines 19–21:
- […] pèr catter poξξè damesc, chi goditnè ndè fuscat, è janè Krȣmbatè, Kazadrenjtè, Veemetè, e Njeguλa.
- [[…] për katër pothe damesh, qi goditnë ndë fushat, e janë krymbatë, kacadrenjtë, vēmetë, e niegulla.]
- […] by four manners of damages that strike in the fields, which are the worms, the locusts, the caterpillars, and the fog.
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | kacadre | kacadreri | kacadrenj | kacadrenjtë |
| accusative | kacadrerin | |||
| dative | kacadreri | kacadrerit | kacadrenjve | kacadrenjve |
| ablative | kacadrenjsh | |||
References
[edit]- ^ Topalli, K. (2017) “kacadre”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, pages 679–680
- ^ Krimpas, P. G. (2021) “On the Modern Greek Origin of the Albanian KACA-prefixoids”, in Porta Balkanica, →ISSN, page 6
Further reading
[edit]- “kacadré,~ri”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][1], 1980, page 754b