Austerlitz

English edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from German Austerlitz, perhaps from an earlier Neusedlitz, borrowed from an old Czech name Novosedlice.

Pronunciation edit

English Wikipedia has articles on:

Slavkov u Brna and Battle of Austerlitz

Wikipedia Wikipedia

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɔːstəlɪts/, /ˈaʊstəlɪts/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈɔstɚlɪts/, /ˈaʊstɚlɪts/

Proper noun edit

Austerlitz

Former name of Slavkov u Brna, Czech Republic. The site of Napoleon's victory over the combined Russian and Austrian armies in 1805.
- 1886, Thomas Hardy, chapter XX, in The Mayor of Casterbridge:
  That dinner at the King’s Arms with his friends had been Henchard’s Austerlitz: he had had his successes since, but his course had not been upward.

Translations edit

former name of Slavkov u Brna

Arabic: أَوْسْتِرْلِيتْز m (ʔawstirlītz)
Armenian: Աուստերլից (Austerlicʻ)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 奧斯特里茨 (Àosītèlǐcí)
Czech: Slavkov u Brna m
Danish: Austerlitz n
Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} Aŭsterlico
Finnish: Austerlitz
French: Austerlitz (fr) m
Georgian: აუსტერლიცი (ausṭerlici)
German: Austerlitz (de) n
Greek: Άουστερλιτς n (Áousterlits)
Hebrew: אוֹסְטֶרְלִיץ m (Ósterlitz)
Japanese: アウステルリッツ (Ausuterurittsu)
Korean: 아우스터리츠 (Auseuteoricheu)
Latvian: Austerlica f
Lithuanian: Austerlicas m
Persian: استرلیتز (osterlitz)
Polish: Austerlitz (pl) m
Russian: А́устерлиц m (Áusterlic)
Slovak: Slavkov u Brna m
Ukrainian: А́устерліц f (Áusterlic)

Dutch edit

Etymology edit

First attested as Austerlitz in 1806. Borrowed from German Austerlitz, the German name of Slavkov u Brna. Louis Napoleon gave the village this name after Napoleon won a victory there against Austria and Russia.