Noun: silovik
| Singular | silovik |
| Plural | siloviks; siloviki |
Sample Sentences
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[T]he so-called siloviki have installed themselves deep inside the country’s boss class – something that did not happen to anything like the same degree during the Cold War. [2023, Robert Service, “The Misinformation Game”, in Literary Review, number 520:]
Nouns inflected like silovik
sexvir,
sejmik,
sazhen,
signor,
podstakannik,
Voskresnik,
edinolichnik,
bolshevik,
bogatyr,
boublik,
Poleshuk,
sbornik,
refusnik,
ponchik,
Minim,
promyshlennik,
septemvir,
otkaznik,
silovik,
udarnik, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Russian силови́к (silovík), from си́ла (síla, “force”) + adjective suffix -ов (-ov, “-able/-ible”) + agent suffix -ик (-ik, “-ist, -er”), adjective: силово́й (silovój, “of or related to force”).