Laboratorijska

Laboratorijska is an adjective form meaning “of the laboratory” or “laboratory-” used in several South Slavic languages, including Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, and Slovenian. It is the feminine singular form derived from the noun laboratorij (laboratory). The word is used to describe feminine nouns and agrees with gender and case; the masculine and neuter counterparts are laboratorijski and laboratorijsko, respectively, and plural forms occur in other gender-number combinations.

In practice, laboratorijska is employed to indicate that something relates to or belongs in a laboratory. Common phrases include laboratorijska oprema (laboratory equipment), laboratorijska analiza (laboratory analysis), and laboratorijska sigurnost (laboratory safety). The term appears in technical writing, product catalogs, signage, and educational materials to specify laboratory-related properties or contexts.

Etymology and morphology: the term comes from the stem laboratorij (laboratory) plus the adjectival suffix -ska, a standard construction in these languages. As with other adjectives, laboratorijska must agree with the noun it modifies in gender, number, and case, so its form changes accordingly in different syntactic contexts.

Notes: laboratorijska is not typically used as a standalone noun. Its exact inflection can vary across dialects and languages within the region, and some languages may have parallel forms with slightly different spellings or endings. In other languages, a roughly equivalent term exists with different endings, such as laboratoryjna in Polish or laboratorní in Czech and Slovak.