тетрадь
Russian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek τετράδιον (tetrádion, “quaternion of parchment”), from τετράς (tetrás).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [tʲɪˈtratʲ]
Audio: (file)
Noun
тетра́дь • (tetrádʹ) f inan (genitive тетра́ди, nominative plural тетра́ди, genitive plural тетра́дей, relational adjective тетра́дный, diminutive тетра́дка or тетра́дочка)
- exercise book, notebook
- 1905, Фёдор Сологуб [Fyodor Sologub], chapter XVI, in Мелкий бес; English translation from John Cournos and Richard Aldington, transl., The Little Demon, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1916:
- Он отыска́л чи́стую тетра́дь, вы́рвал сре́дний лист и хоте́л бежа́ть в гости́ную, но уже́ Людми́ла стоя́ла на поро́ге.
- On otyskál čístuju tetrádʹ, výrval srédnij list i xotél bežátʹ v gostínuju, no užé Ljudmíla stojála na poróge.
- He found a clean exercise-book, tore out the middle page and was about to run back to the drawing-room when he saw Liudmilla at the door.
- (printing) signature
Declension
Declension of тетра́дь (inan fem-form 3rd-decl accent-a)
Related terms
Related via Ancient Greek τετράς (tetrás):
- Native
Related via Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres:
Descendants
Further reading
- Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882), “тетрадь”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.