pluta

See also: Pluta and plută

Lithuanian

Etymology

Cognate with Polish płeć (“gender, originally: skin”)[1][2] and Russian плоть (plotʹ, “flesh”).

Pronunciation
  • (plutà) IPA(key): [pɫʊˈt̪ɐ]
  • (plùta) IPA(key): [ˈpɫʊt̪ɐ]

Noun

plutà f (plural plùtos) stress pattern 4 [3]

  1. rind[4] (especially of bread)
  2. (figuratively) something hard and covering another things; crust
    Žemės pluta - Earth's crust

Declension
declension of pluta
singular (vienaskaita) plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas) plutà plùtos
genitive (kilmininkas) plutõs plutų̃
dative (naudininkas) plùtai plutóms
accusative (galininkas) plùtą plutàs
instrumental (įnagininkas) plutà plutomìs
locative (vietininkas) plutojè plutosè
vocative (šauksmininkas) plùta plùtos

Synonyms
  • luoba

Derived terms
  • (diminutive noun) plutẽlė

See also

References
  1. Brückner, Aleksander (1927), “płeć”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna, published 1985, page 421
  2. http://sjp.pwn.pl/poradnia/haslo/plec;14277.html
  3. “pluta” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
  4. “pluta” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN
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