prosinac

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

• (December): Uncertain. Morphologically possibly from pro- (“through”) + sȋnjī (“gray; of the colour of ash”). Etymology of Christian source describes it as a month of "praying" (compare pròsiti (“to pray”)). Other sources speculate that, since it's the month of Sun's solstice, it would be the month in which the Sun "starts glowing" (compare prosínuti (“to start glowing”)). Cognate to Czech prosinec.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prǒsinat͡s/
• Hyphenation: pro‧si‧nac

Noun

pròsinac m inan (Cyrillic spelling про̀синац, relational adjective pròsinačkī)

1. (Croatia) December

   Synonym: dècēmbar

   u prosincu ― in December

   dvadeset petog prosinca ― on the twenty-fifth of December

2. mercury (Mercurialis gen. et spp.)

   Synonyms: rèsulja, štȋr, mrkorèla, mrkonèla, mrkvela, (Istra, Krk) mrkvjela, bingulja

Declension

Declension of prosinac

	singular	plural
nominative	pròsinac	prosinci
genitive	pròsīnca	prosinaca
dative	prosincu	prosincima
accusative	prosinac	prosince
vocative	prosinče	prosinci
locative	prosincu	prosincima
instrumental	prosincem	prosincima

Coordinate terms

Gregorian calendar months (Croatia): mjeseci gregorijanskog kalendaraedit

• sijȇčanj
• vèljača
• òžujak
• trȃvanj
• svȋbanj
• lȋpanj
• sȓpanj
• kȍlovōz
• rȗjan
• lȉstopād
• stùdenī
• pròsinac

Further reading

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