cepums

Latvian

Cepumi (2)

From cep(t) (“to bake”) ‎ -ums.

cepums m (1st declension)

(usually singular) something roasted, fried, baked
vakardienas cepuma maize ― yesterday's bread (lit. yesterday's baked bread

tuvojas pusdienas, un virtuvē kaut kas cepas... čurkst tauki, un cepuma smarža kutina mūsu degunus ― lunch time was near, and something was being fried in the kitchen... frying noises, and the smell of something fried tickled our noses
cookie, biscuit, cracker, shortbread (small pastries mostly made of flour, sugar, fat and eggs)
cukura cepumi ― (sugar) cookies

sāļie cepumi ― crackers (lit. salty cookies)

sviesta cepumi ― butter cookies

cietie cepumi ― hard cookies

sausie cepumi ― dry cookies, biscuits

trauslie cepumi ― brittle cookies

smilšu cepumi ― shortbread (lit. sand cookies)

kopējā maizes deva, cepumus ieskaitot, bērna dienas uzturā ir 100-200 gramu ― the total amount of bread, including cookies, in the (suggested) daily diet of a child is 100-200 grams

glāzēs salieta tēja, un stikla traukā ir cepumi... tie vēl silti, smaržo pēc riekstiem ― tea had been poured into the glasses, and there were cookies on the glass tray... these (were) still warm and smelled of nuts

Declension of cepums (1st declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	cepums	cepumi
accusative (akuzatīvs)	cepumu	cepumus
genitive (ģenitīvs)	cepuma	cepumu
dative (datīvs)	cepumam	cepumiem
instrumental (instrumentālis)	cepumu	cepumiem
locative (lokatīvs)	cepumā	cepumos
vocative (vokatīvs)	cepum	cepumi