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robots
robots
Latvian
Etymology 1
From Czech robot, from robota (“drudgery, servitude”). Coined in the 1921 science-fiction play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel Čapek after having been suggested to him by his brother Josef , and taken into other languages without change.
Noun
robots m (1st declension)
- robot (machine built to carry out complex tasks, especially one which can be programmed)
- rūpniecības robots ― industrial robot
- pētniecības robots ― research robot
- sadzīves robots ― household robot
- (science fiction) robot (intelligent machine designed to look like a human being)
Declension
Declension of robots (1st declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
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nominative (nominatīvs) | robots | roboti |
accusative (akuzatīvs) | robotu | robotus |
genitive (ģenitīvs) | robota | robotu |
dative (datīvs) | robotam | robotiem |
instrumental (instrumentālis) | robotu | robotiem |
locative (lokatīvs) | robotā | robotos |
vocative (vokatīvs) | robot | roboti |
Etymology 2
Past participle of the verb robot (“to notch, to jag”), from robs (“cog, jag, gap”).
Adjective
robots (def. robotais, comp. robotāks, sup. visrobotākais; adv. roboti)
- jagged, notched, indented; having gaps, unevenness
- robotas lapas ― serrated leaves
- robotas kalnu galotnes ― jagged mountain tops
Declension
indefinite declension (nenoteiktā galotne) of robots
masculine (vīriešu dzimte) | feminine (sieviešu dzimte) | ||||||||
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singular (vienskaitlis) |
plural (daudzskaitlis) |
singular (vienskaitlis) |
plural (daudzskaitlis) |
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nominative (nominatīvs) | robots | roboti | robota | robotas | |||||
accusative (akuzatīvs) | robotu | robotus | robotu | robotas | |||||
genitive (ģenitīvs) | robota | robotu | robotas | robotu | |||||
dative (datīvs) | robotam | robotiem | robotai | robotām | |||||
instrumental (instrumentālis) | robotu | robotiem | robotu | robotām | |||||
locative (lokatīvs) | robotā | robotos | robotā | robotās | |||||
vocative (vokatīvs) | — | — | — | — | |||||