notikums

Notikums is a Latvian noun meaning an event or occurrence. It is used to describe any happening at a particular time, from everyday incidents to significant historical events. The term derives from the verb notikt, “to happen,” with the suffix -ums forming a noun.

In ordinary speech, notikums refers to planned activities such as meetings, ceremonies, or concerts, as well as unexpected happenings. It is used with prepositions such as par notikumu (about the event) and no notikuma (of the event), though the exact forms depend on the sentence structure.

In mathematics and statistics, notikums is the standard Latvian term for an event in probability theory. An event is a set of outcomes from a random experiment; probabilities are assigned to events, with notation P(A) for the probability of event A.

The word is masculine and forms a regular plural, notikumi. The concept has parallels in related Baltic languages, and the term is common in both everyday language and formal discourse.