kolovoz

Serbo-Croatian

FWOTD – 29 August 2017

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kolovozъ (“rut, wheel track”). Equivalent to kȍlo (“wheel, cart wheel”) + vȏz (“cart load”), vòziti (“to drive”), thus denoting the month in which mowed grain is being carried.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kôloʋoːz/
• Hyphenation: ko‧lo‧voz

Noun

kȍlovōz m (Cyrillic spelling ко̏лово̄з)

1. carriageway

   Synonym: (Croatian) kolnik

2. (Croatia) August

   Synonyms: (Bosnian) àugust, (Serbian) àvgust

   u kolovozu ― in August

   petnaestog kolovoza ― on the fifteenth of August

   • 2015, Pavao Pavličić, Diksilend:

     Mora biti da je bio kolovoz, doba kad Vukovar miriše na svježe paprike što se prodaju na tržnici, na pečene što cvrče na ...

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Declension

Declension of kolovoz

	singular	plural
nominative	kolovoz	kolovozi
genitive	kolovoza	kolovoza
dative	kolovozu	kolovozima
accusative	kolovoz	kolovoze
vocative	kolovoze	kolovozi
locative	kolovozu	kolovozima
instrumental	kolovozom	kolovozima

Coordinate terms

Gregorian calendar months (Croatia): mjeseci gregorijanskog kalendaraedit

• sijȇčanj
• vèljača
• òžujak
• trȃvanj
• svȋbanj
• lȋpanj
• sȓpanj
• kȍlovōz
• rȗjan
• lȉstopād
• stùdenī
• pròsinac

Derived terms

• kȍlovoskī
• kȍlovoškī

Further reading

• “kolovoz”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025