antonīms

See also: antònims

Latvian

Etymology

A modern coinage, meant to be the opposite of sinonīms, with components derived from Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “against”) and ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”), with variants that arose in various European languages around 1850-1870. It was borrowed into Latvian and made into a masculine first-declension noun (ending -s), by analogy with sinonīms.

Pronunciation
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Noun

antonīms m (1st declension)

  1. antonym (one of two or more linguistic elements with opposed meanings)
    leksiskie antonīmi ― lexical antonyms
    vardam “melns” antonīms ir “balts” ― the antonyms of the word “black” is “white”
    aptaujas lapā bija minēti 43 antonīmi ― in the questionnaire, 43 antonyms were mentioned

Declension
Declension of antonīms (1st declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) antonīms antonīmi
accusative (akuzatīvs) antonīmu antonīmus
genitive (ģenitīvs) antonīma antonīmu
dative (datīvs) antonīmam antonīmiem
instrumental (instrumentālis) antonīmu antonīmiem
locative (lokatīvs) antonīmā antonīmos
vocative (vokatīvs) antonīm antonīmi

Antonyms

See also
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