Noun: antonīms
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | antonīms |
| Accusative | antonīmu |
| Genitive | antonīma |
| Dative | antonīmam |
| Instrumental | antonīmu |
| Locative | antonīmā |
| Vocative | antonīm |
Plural
| Nominative | antonīmi |
| Accusative | antonīmus |
| Genitive | antonīmu |
| Dative | antonīmiem |
| Instrumental | antonīmiem |
| Locative | antonīmos |
| Vocative | antonīmi |
Sample Sentences
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leksiskie antonīmi (lexical antonyms)
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vardam “melns” antonīms ir “balts” (the antonyms of the word “black” is “white”)
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aptaujas lapā bija minēti 43 antonīmi (in the questionnaire, 43 antonyms were mentioned)
Nouns inflected like antonīms
gredzens,
greznums,
sniegs,
salāts,
sakars,
diftongs,
smaids,
sonets,
sivēns,
dienests,
piecnieks,
skudrs,
skvērs,
skaits,
pacients,
vilciens,
realizējums,
skatiens,
izskats,
spoguļattēls, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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.
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