slidens
Latvian
Alternative forms
- (dialectal form) slids
Etymology
From the same stem as Latvian slīdēt (“to slide”) and slaids (“slender, slim”): Proto-Baltic *slid + -ens, from Proto-Indo-European *sleydʰ- (“slippery, to slide”). A dialectal variant slids (“slippery”), without the suffix, also exists (compare Lithuanian slidùs (“slippery”)).[1]
Adjective
slidens (definite slidenais, comparative slidenāks, superlative visslidenākais, adverb slideni)
- slippery, slick (with a surface that has little attrition)
- slidens ceļš ― slippery path, road
- slidena virsma ― slippery surface
- slidens parkets ― slippery flooring
- slidenas kurpju zoles ― slippery shoe soles
- slidenas kāpnes ― slippery stairs
- (figuratively) slippery, slick (associated with risk, with difficulty)
- slidens pasākums ― a slippery, difficult enterprise, project
- diezgan slidena dzejas problēma ― the rather slippery problem of poetry
Declension
indefinite declension (nenoteiktā galotne) of slidens
| masculine (vīriešu dzimte) | feminine (sieviešu dzimte) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | ||||||
| nominative (nominatīvs) | slidens | slideni | slidena | slidenas | |||||
| accusative (akuzatīvs) | slidenu | slidenus | slidenu | slidenas | |||||
| genitive (ģenitīvs) | slidena | slidenu | slidenas | slidenu | |||||
| dative (datīvs) | slidenam | slideniem | slidenai | slidenām | |||||
| instrumental (instrumentālis) | slidenu | slideniem | slidenu | slidenām | |||||
| locative (lokatīvs) | slidenā | slidenos | slidenā | slidenās | |||||
| vocative (vokatīvs) | — | — | — | — | |||||
Derived terms
- slidenums
Related terms
- slīdēt
- slidot
References
- Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “slīdēt”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN