Carpathian
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7.2
- adjective
- /kɑrˈpeɪθiən/
:
carpático
- Gömbös is the pearl of the Carpathian Mountains...
- Carpathian Basin
Examples
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As you may know, there's such a thing as a Carpathian brown bat, common in these highlands.
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Here in the Carpathian Mountains, vampirism was an undisputed fact.
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I will bring my entire army to the top of the Carpathian Mountains.
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I got this in the Carpathian Mountains.
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What do the Carpathian Mountains have to do with us?
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In the old country, in my little village, in the Carpathian Mountains, there was a story passed on from generation to generation.
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We continued to travel like this all through the Carpathian Mountains.
Blog text (15) -
Ever since they captured the Carpathian Basin in the late ninth century, they have maintained a more or less continual state that has played a key role in European, especially Central European, history.
Academic text (2000) -
There are an estimated one million Ruthenians spread out in the Carpathian Mountains of Poland, Ukraine, Slovakia, Romania, and Hungary.
Academic text (1996) -
The breathtaking scenery of the Carpathian Mountains attracts many hikers every year.
Compounds
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5.4
A group of mountains in central and eastern Europe from southern Poland and Slovakia through Ukraine to northeastern Romania
Surface Forms
Morphology
Carpathian = Carpath + ian
The adjective is formally based on a proper-name stem plus the suffix -ian, but the stem itself is not a transparent English word for most learners.
Etymology
Carpathian comes from the name of the Carpathian Mountains in Central and Eastern Europe, so the adjective simply means something 'from or about those mountains' and their region, like forests, villages, or trails.