bjelogorica

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From bijel (“white”) +‎ -o- +‎ gora (“forest”) +‎ -ica. Coined by Bogoslav Šulek (1860, under headword Laubwald) as antonym to crnogorica (“coniferous forest”, literally “black forest”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bjeloɡǒrit͡sa/, /bjelǒɡorit͡sa/

Noun

bjelogòrica or bjelògorica f (Cyrillic spelling бјелого̀рица or бјело̀горица, relational adjective bjelogorični)

(uncountable) deciduous wood or trees
Antonym: crnogorica
- 1942, Ivo Horvat, “Crnogorica”, in Mate Ujević, editor, Hrvatska enciklopedija‎^[1], volume 4, Zagreb: Hrvatski izdavalački bibliografski zavod, page 130:
  Dioba drveća i grmlja na crnogoricu i bjelogoricu, kao i na zimzeleno i listopadno rašće, potječe iz kopnenih dijelova Hrvatske
  The classification of trees and shrubs into coniferous and deciduous, as well as into evergreen and deciduous vegetation, originates from the continental parts of Croatia

Usage notes

The accent bjelògorica (as in Babić 2002) is archaic / less frequent.

Declension

Declension of bjelogorica

	singular
nominative	bjelogòrica
genitive	bjelogòricē
dative	bjelogòrici
accusative	bjelogòricu
vocative	bjelogòrice / bjelogòrico
locative	bjelogòrici
instrumental	bjelogòricōm

References

Babić, Stjepan (2002), Tvorba riječi u hrvatskome književnome jeziku, 3rd revised edition, Zagreb: HAZU, page(s) 189, § 583
Dukat, Vladoje (1936), “Bjelogorica, crnogorica”, in Наш језик‎^[2], volume IV, number 5, Београд: Лингвистичко друштво, pages 137-139
Šulek, Bogoslav (1860), “Laubwald”, in Deutsch-kroatisches Wörterbuch / Němačko-hrvatski rěčnik: I. Band (A bis L)‎^[3], Agram: Franz Suppan