pazerny
Polish
Etymology
From earlier dialectal pażerny, pażyrny, from Old Polish pażyra (“glutton”). Compare pożerać (“to devour”)[1].
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /paˈzɛr.nɨ/
- Rhymes: -ɛrnɨ
- Syllabification: pa‧zer‧ny
Adjective
pazerny (comparative pazerniejszy, superlative najpazerniejszy, adverb pazernie)
- (colloquial) greedy, rapacious
- Synonym: zachłanny
Declension
Declension of pazerny
| case | singular | plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine personal/animate | masculine inanimate | neuter | feminine | virile | nonvirile | ||
| nominative, vocative | pazerny | pazerne | pazerna | pazerni | pazerne | ||
| genitive | pazernego | pazernej | pazernych | ||||
| dative | pazernemu | pazernym | |||||
| accusative | pazernego | pazerny | pazerne | pazerną | pazernych | pazerne | |
| instrumental | pazernym | pazernymi | |||||
| locative | pazernej | pazernych | |||||
Derived terms
noun
- pazerność
References
- Andrzej Bańkowski (2000) Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego (in Polish)
Further reading
- pazerny in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- pazerny in Polish dictionaries at PWN