blitva

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dalmatian *bliatua, hypothetical metathesized form of Latin betula, with regular diphthongization of stressed e into ia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blîtʋa/
• Hyphenation: bli‧tva

Noun

blȉtva f (Cyrillic spelling бли̏тва)

1. chard
2. beet as a whole plant

Declension

Declension of blitva

	singular	plural
nominative	blitva	blitve
genitive	blitve	blitva
dative	blitvi	blitvama
accusative	blitvu	blitve
vocative	blitvo	blitve
locative	blitvi	blitvama
instrumental	blitvom	blitvama

Further reading

• “blitva”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025