отрок

• о́трокъ (ótrok) — pre-1918 spelling

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *otrokъ.

Compare typologically Latin īnfāns (in- + fāns, p.a.p. of for).

• IPA^(key): [ˈotrək]

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о́трок • (ótrok) m anim (genitive о́трока, nominative plural о́троки, genitive plural о́троков, female equivalent отрокови́ца or отрочи́ца, relational adjective о́троческий)

1. (archaic, poetic or ironic) boy, adolescent (7–12 years old)
2. (historical) junior retainer, soldier (in a medieval prince's armed retinue)

   Hypernym: дружи́нник (družínnik)

• о́троческий (ótročeskij)
• о́трочество n (ótročestvo)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “отрок”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

• Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882), “отрок”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.

• ро́кот (rókot)