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Sizar
Si′zar
,Noun.
One of a body of students in the universities of Cambridge (Eng.) and Dublin, who, having passed a certain examination, are exempted from paying college fees and charges. A sizar corresponded to a servitor at Oxford.
The
sizar
paid nothing for food and tuition, and very little for lodging. Macaulay.
☞ They formerly waited on the table at meals; but this is done away with. They were probably so called from being thus employed in distributing the size, or provisions. See 4th
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sizar
sizar
See also: sizär
English
Alternative forms
Noun
sizar (plural sizars)
- (Britain) At certain universities, e.g. Cambridge and Dublin, a student who receives an allowance for his college expenses (a study grant); originally in return for serving other (paying) students.
See also
-
sizar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- bursar
- scholarship
References
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
Veps
Noun
sizar
Inflection
| Inflection of sizar | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative sing. | sizar | ||
| genitive sing. | sizaren | ||
| partitive sing. | sizart | ||
| partitive plur. | sizarid | ||
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | sizar | sizared | |
| accusative | sizaren | sizared | |
| genitive | sizaren | sizariden | |
| partitive | sizart | sizarid | |
| essive-instructive | sizaren | sizarin | |
| translative | sizareks | sizarikš | |
| inessive | sizares | sizariš | |
| elative | sizarespäi | sizarišpäi | |
| illative | ? | sizarihe | |
| adessive | sizarel | sizaril | |
| ablative | sizarelpäi | sizarilpäi | |
| allative | sizarele | sizarile | |
| abessive | sizareta | sizarita | |
| comitative | sizarenke | sizaridenke | |
| prolative | sizartme | sizaridme | |
| approximative I | sizarenno | sizaridenno | |
| approximative II | sizarennoks | sizaridennoks | |
| egressive | sizarennopäi | sizaridennopäi | |
| terminative I | ? | sizarihesai | |
| terminative II | sizarelesai | sizarilesai | |
| terminative III | sizaressai | — | |
| additive I | ? | sizarihepäi | |
| additive II | sizarelepäi | sizarilepäi | |
References
- Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “сестра”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika