pohota

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *poxotь. First attested in the 16th century.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pôxota/
  • Hyphenation: po‧ho‧ta

Noun

pȍhota f (Cyrillic spelling по̏хота)

  1. lust, concupiscence, sexual desire
  2. greed, avidity

Declension

Declension of pohota
singular
nominative pohota
genitive pohote
dative pohoti
accusative pohotu
vocative pohoto
locative pohoti
instrumental pohotom

Derived terms

adjectives
nouns

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2021), “pohota”, in Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes II: O—Ž, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 154

Further reading

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