crnogorica

Calque of German Schwarzwald (“coniferous forest”, literally “black forest”), coined by Bogoslav Šulek (1860, under headword Nadelwald). By surface analysis, crn (“black”) +‎ -o- +‎ gora (“forest”) +‎ -ica.

• IPA^(key): /t͡sr̩noɡǒrit͡sa/, /t͡sr̩nǒɡorit͡sa/
• Hyphenation: cr‧no‧go‧ri‧ca

crnogòrica or crnògorica f (Cyrillic spelling црного̀рица or црно̀горица, relational adjective crnogorični)

1. (uncountable) coniferous wood or trees, conifers

   Synonym: četinjače

   Antonym: bjelogorica

   • 1865 April 28, Josip Torbar, “O ulazu na planine. 1. Ulaz na Klek i Plišivicu”, in Domobran, volume II, number 97, Zagreb, page 2:

     Njegove rieči potvrdjivaše gusta jošte mlada crnogorica, koja je na njekadašnjem ugaru poslie iztisnuta dušmana ovako bujno porasla.

     His words were confirmed by the thick, still young coniferous wood, which has so densely grown on the former fallow after the enemy had been forced out.

• The accent crnògorica (as in Ристић-Кангрга 1928, Deanović-Jernej 1975) is archaic / less frequent. Benešić 1949 is the first source to provide crnogòrica.
• Commonly perceived as synonymous to zimzelen (“evergreen”, adjective) and vazdazelen (adjective), although there are some coniferous tress that aren't evergreen, such as Larix decidua, which isn't native to Croatia.

• “crnogorica”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026
• Benešić, Julije (1949), Hrvatsko-poljski rječnik / Słownik chorwacko-polski, Zagreb: Nakladni zavod Hrvatske
• Deanović, Mirko; Jernej, Josip (1975), Hrvatsko ili srpsko-talijanski rječnik / Vocabolario croato o serbo-italiano, 4th edition, Zagreb: Školska knjiga
• Dukat, Vladoje (1936), “Bjelogorica, crnogorica”, in Наш језик‎^[1], volume IV, number 5, Београд: Лингвистичко друштво, pages 137-139
• Ристић, Светомир; Кангрга, Јован (1928), Das Wörterbuch der serbokroatischen und deutschen Sprache. Zweiter Teil: Serbokroatisch-Deutsch / Речник српскохрватског и немачког језика. Други део: српскохрватско-немачки‎^[2], Београд: Издавачка књижарница Рајковића и Чупковића
• Skok, Petar (1971–1974), “cȓn²”, in Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika [Etymological Dictionary of the Croatian or Serbian Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 1–4 (A – Ž), Zagreb: JAZU, page 1
• Šugar, Ivan (2002), “Izrazi vazdazelen i zimzelen u hrvatskom leksiku i njihovo značenje”, in Jezik‎^[3], volume 49, number 3, Zagreb: Hrvatsko filološko društvo, pages 104-108
• Šulek, Bogoslav (1860), “Nadelwald”, in Deutsch-kroatisches Wörterbuch / Němačko-hrvatski rěčnik: II. Band (M bis Z)‎^[4], Agram: Franz Suppan