pleso

See also: pleśo and plešo

Czech

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pleso

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Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pleso, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“wide, flat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈplɛso]
• Rhymes: -ɛso
• Hyphenation: ple‧so

Noun

pleso n

1. montane glacial lake, particularly in the Tatra Mountains

Declension

Declension of pleso (hard neuter)

	singular	plural
nominative	pleso	plesa
genitive	plesa	ples
dative	plesu	plesům
accusative	pleso	plesa
vocative	pleso	plesa
locative	plese, plesu	plesech
instrumental	plesem	plesy

Further reading

• “pleso”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “pleso”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “pleso”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pleso, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“wide, flat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plêso/
• Hyphenation: ple‧so

Noun

plȅso n (Cyrillic spelling пле̏со)

1. (archaic) flooded valley

References

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