Noun: Croat
| Singular | Croat |
| Plural | Croats |
Sample Sentences
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It almost made him laugh. What could he possibly do in Ohio? Did Cleveland have a pressing need for secret policemen who spoke Croat? [2012, Alen Mattich, Zagreb Cowboy, →ISBN, page 134:]
Nouns inflected like Croat
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Slavic *xъrvatъbor.
3. Medieval Latin Croatalbor.
4. English Croat
5. Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin Croata, borrowed from Proto-Slavic *xъrvatъ (“Croat”), the Croatian autonym. It, in turn, is probably of non-Slavic origin: probably from an Iranian or Germanic language. First attested in 1585. Doublet of cravat.
Verbs referencing "Croat"
Spanish Nouns
corbata.