limunika

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From lȉmūn +‎ -ika. First attested in the 19th century.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /limǔnika/
  • Hyphenation: li‧mu‧ni‧ka

Noun

limùnika f (Cyrillic spelling лиму̀ника)

  1. (neologism) grapefruit
    Synonym: grejpfrut

Declension

    Declension of limunika
singular plural
nominative limunika limunike
genitive limunike limunika
dative limuniki limunikama
accusative limuniku limunike
vocative limuniko limunike
locative limuniki limunikama
instrumental limunikom limunikama

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko, Dunja Brozović Rončević, Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk (2016), “limunika”, in Matasović, Ranko, editor, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume I: A – Nj, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 555

Further reading

  • “limunika”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026
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