troglodīts

Latvian

Via other Euroepan languages, ultimately borrowed from Latin trōglodyta (“cave dwelling people”), itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek τρωγλοδύτης (trōglodútēs, “one who dwells in holes”), from τρώγλη (trṓglē, “hole”) and δύω (dúō, “I get into”).

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troglodīts m (1st declension)

troglodyte, caveman (member of an ancient human species that supposedly lived in caves)
troglodīts ir aizvēsturisks alu cilvēks ― a troglodyte is a prehistoric caveman

Declension of troglodīts (1st declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	troglodīts	troglodīti
accusative (akuzatīvs)	troglodītu	troglodītus
genitive (ģenitīvs)	troglodīta	troglodītu
dative (datīvs)	troglodītam	troglodītiem
instrumental (instrumentālis)	troglodītu	troglodītiem
locative (lokatīvs)	troglodītā	troglodītos
vocative (vokatīvs)	troglodīt	troglodīti