klepus – Latvian noun declension

Noun: klepus
Hyphenation:

Gender: Masculine Declension:

Singular

Nominative	klepus
Accusative	klepu
Genitive	klepus
Dative	klepum
Instrumental	klepu
Locative	klepū
Vocative	klepus

Plural

Sample Sentences

sauss, mokošs klepus (dry, painful cough)
dziļš klepus (deep cough)
rejošs klepus (strong, deep (lit. barking) cough)
klepus lēkme (coughing (lit. cough attack))
aizturēt klepus (to hold (one's) cough(ing))
garais klepus (whooping cough (lit. the long cough))
viņam uznāca stiprs klepus (he coughed strongly (lit. to him came a strong cough))

Nouns inflected like klepus

medus, klepus, alus,

Etymology

From the same stem as Latvian klabēt (“to rumble, to rattle”) (q.v.), but with an extra -p. Originally, this word was probably the description of a sound; compare Lithuanian interjection klèpt! and verbs klepčióti, klepuóti, klapsė́ti (“to rumble, to rattle, to knock”). Cognates include Lithuanian klepùs (“contentious, quarrelsome”).