kadionica

Serbo-Croatian

FWOTD – 27 May 2016

kadionica

Alternative forms

• kadilьnica, kadilnica (obsolete)
• kadilica (obsolete, rare)
• kàdionīk
• kàdionjīk, kàdiovnīk, kàdīljnjāk, kàdīljnīk (rare)

Etymology

From earlier kadilnica, from Proto-Slavic *kadidlьnica. By surface analysis, kadilo +‎ -nica.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kǎdionit͡sa/
• Hyphenation: ka‧di‧o‧ni‧ca

Noun

kàdionica f (Cyrillic spelling ка̀дионица)

1. censer, thurible.

   Synonym: kàdilo

   • 1897, Josip Lovretić, “Narodni Život i Običaji”, in Zbornik za narodni život i običaje južnih Slavena, volume 2:

     U zubi je lula, a u ruki žapaļena kadionica, da se puši.

     In his teeth is a pipe, and in his hand is a burning censer, to smoke.

   • 1958, Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts, Starohrvatska prosvjeta:

     O obliku i ukrasu kadionica nastalih i rađenih na Zapadu do XI. stoljeća možemo suditi uglavnom samo na osnovu izvora i likovnih prikaza, jer rani primjerci, koji se čuvaju po evropskim muzejima, potjecu uglavnom s Istoka.

     We can for the most part determine the forms and decorations of censers developed and made in the West until the 11th century only on the basis of sources and depictions, for the early examples that are held in European musea come primarily from the East.

2. (slang) An excessively smoky room; a room where there is no clear air due to smokers’ smoke.

Declension

Declension of kadionica

	singular	plural
nominative	kadionica	kadionice
genitive	kadionice	kadionica
dative	kadionici	kadionicama
accusative	kadionicu	kadionice
vocative	kadionice / kadionico	kadionice
locative	kadionici	kadionicama
instrumental	kadionicom	kadionicama

References

• Pero Budmani, editor (1892–1897), “kàdionica”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika‎^[1] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 4, Zagreb: JAZU, page 729
• “kadionica”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024