nāvessods

See also: nāves sods

Latvian

nāvessods on Latvian Wikipedia

From nāves (“death[gen.]”) +‎ sods (“penalty”).

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nāvessods m (1st declension)

death penalty, capital punishment (the legal killing of a condemned criminal by the state as punishment for his or her crimes)
mūsdienu Latvijā nāvessods nav piemērojams ― in modern Latvia the death penalty is not applied

decembrī, Valmieras pamalē, Karātavu kalnā, izpildīja lauka karatiesas piespriestos nāvessodus vienpadsmit komunistiem un komjauniešiem ― in December, in the outskirts of Valmiera, on Karatāvu hill, (they) carried out the death penalties, ordered by military tribunal, of eleven communists and Komosomol members

Declension of nāvessods (1st declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	nāvessods	nāvessodi
accusative (akuzatīvs)	nāvessodu	nāvessodus
genitive (ģenitīvs)	nāvessoda	nāvessodu
dative (datīvs)	nāvessodam	nāvessodiem
instrumental (instrumentālis)	nāvessodu	nāvessodiem
locative (lokatīvs)	nāvessodā	nāvessodos
vocative (vokatīvs)	nāvessod	nāvessodi