Procesi

Procesi is the plural form of the noun proces in several South Slavic languages, including Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian, and Montenegrin. It means "processes" and is used to refer to sequences of actions, events, or states that lead to a result.

The word derives from Latin processus, via medieval Latin and Old French or Italian loanwords that entered these languages during the development of legal, administrative, and scientific vocabularies. In grammar, proces is a masculine, inanimate noun. The nominative singular is proces, and the nominative plural is procesi; in Serbian Cyrillic the plural is процеси.

The form procesi is the standard plural in all major dialects of these languages, though it may be accompanied by case endings in different constructions. Usage spans many domains. In everyday language it denotes any set of steps or stages, from bureaucratic processes to industrial production processes. In science and medicine, biological processes such as metabolism or photosynthesis may be described as biološki procesi. In computing, the term is used similarly to refer to system processes or running processes.

Capitalized Procesi may appear as a proper noun in some contexts, such as last names or place names, but such uses are less common and are disambiguated by capitalization.

See also: Process (disambiguation); Process (computing).