Wiktionary

stolica

See also: stolicą

Old Polish edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stolica. By surface analysis, stół +‎ -ica. First attested in 1471.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /stɔlʲit͡sa/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /stɔlʲit͡sa/

Noun edit

stolica f

  1. chair, seat (equipment for sitting)
    • 1901 [1471], Materiały i Prace Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie, volume V, page 85:
      Na stoliczy super sellam (super sellam iudicis non sedebunt Ecclus 38, 38)
      [Na stolicy super sellam (super sellam iudicis non sedebunt Ecclus 38, 38)]
  2. throne (place of sitting for a ruler)
    • 1901 [1471], Materiały i Prace Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie, volume V, page 13:
      Stolyczą (war. kal.: palacz) solium (uno tantum regni solio te praecedam Gen 41, 40)
      [Stolica (war. kal.: pałac) solium (uno tantum regni solio te praecedam Gen 41, 40)]
    • 1901 [-], Materiały i Prace Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie, volume V, page 112:
      K stoliczy solio (qui separati estis in diem malum et appropinquatis solio iniquitatis Am 6, 3)
      [K stolicy solio (qui separati estis in diem malum et appropinquatis solio iniquitatis Am 6, 3)]

Descendants edit

  • Polish: stolica
  • Silesian: stolica

References edit

Polish edit

 
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Etymology edit

Inherited from Old Polish stolica. Sense 1 is from sense 4 with a shift of seat for a leader -> place of authority.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /stɔˈli.t͡sa/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /stɔˈli.t͡sa/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -it͡sa
  • Syllabification: sto‧li‧ca

Noun edit

stolica f (related adjective stołeczny)

  2. capital, capital city (city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority for a nation)
    Synonym: miasto stołeczne
  3. capital, capital city (main city of a region)
  4. capital (most important area in the field specified)
  6. (obsolete) throne (seat for a leader)
    Synonym: tron
  7. (obsolete) bench (long seat with or without a back)
    Synonym: ława
  8. (obsolete) scaffold (platform for executions)
    Synonym: szafot
  9. (obsolete) kneading board, pastry board
    Synonym: stolnica
  10. (obsolete) back part of the box of a manual chaff cutter
  11. (obsolete) carpenter's tool for holding a whittled object

Declension edit

Declension of stolica
singular plural
nominative stolica stolice
genitive stolicy stolic
dative stolicy stolicom
accusative stolicę stolice
instrumental stolicą stolicami
locative stolicy stolicach
vocative stolico stolice

Derived terms edit

nouns

Related terms edit

nouns

Trivia edit

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), stolica is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 15 times in scientific texts, 66 times in news, 9 times in essays, 8 times in fiction, and 6 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 104 times, making it the 598th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References edit

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “stolica”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 562

Further reading edit

  • stolica in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • stolica in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “stolica”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • “STOLICA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 16.03.2009
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “stolica”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎[2]
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “stolica”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎[3]
  • J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1915), “stolica”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎[4] (in Polish), volume 6, Warsaw, page 429

Serbo-Croatian edit

 
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Etymology edit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stolica.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

stòlica f (Cyrillic spelling сто̀лица)

  1. chair
    Synonym: stòlac
  2. (medicine) stool
  3. (archaic) capital city
    Synonyms: glàvnī grȃd, prijéstōlnica

Declension edit

Declension of stolica
singular plural
nominative stolica stolice
genitive stolice stolica
dative stolici stolicama
accusative stolicu stolice
vocative stolico stolice
locative stolici stolicama
instrumental stolicom stolicama

Further reading edit

  • “stolica” in Hrvatski jezični portal
  • “stolica” in Hrvatski jezični portal
  • “stolica” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Silesian edit

 
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Etymology edit

Inherited from Old Polish stolica. By surface analysis, stół +‎ -ica. Sense 1 is a semantic loan from Polish stolica and displaced głōwne miasto.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /stɔˈlit͡sa/
  • Rhymes: -it͡sa
  • Syllabification: sto‧li‧ca

Noun edit

stolica f

  2. capital, capital city
    Synonym: głōwne miasto
  3. table (furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses)
  4. (architecture) platform, tribune, pulpit (raised stage from which speeches are made)
  5. strip foundation
  6. bench (long seat with or without a back)

Declension edit

Declension of stolica
singular plural
nominative stolica stolice
genitive stolice stolic
dative stolicy stolicōm
accusative stolicã stolice
instrumental stolicōm stolicami/stolicōma
locative stolicy stolicach
vocative stolico stolice

Further reading edit

  • stolica in silling.org
  • Barbara Podgórska, Adam Podgóski (2008) “stolica”, in Słownik gwar śląskich [A dictionary of Silesian lects], Katowice: Wydawnictwo KOS, →ISBN, page 264

Slovak edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stolica.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

stolica f

  1. (work) bench
  2. stool(s) (waste matter)

Declension edit

Declension of stolica
singular plural
nominative stolica stolice
genitive stolice stolíc
dative stolici stoliciam
accusative stolicu stolice
locative stolici stoliciach
instrumental stolicou stolicami

Further reading edit

  • “stolica”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
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