Leipzig

English

Alternative forms

• Leipsic, Leipzic (obsolete)

Etymology

From German Leipzig, from Slavic.

Pronunciation

• (Anglicised) IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪp.sɪɡ/, /ˈlaɪp.sɪk/, /ˈlaɪp.zɪɡ/ (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?)

  • Audio (Southern England)

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• (as German) /ˈlaɪp.tsɪk/

Proper noun

Leipzig

1. An independent city in Saxony, Germany
2. The Leipzig Glossing Rules or glossing style, a style of glossing used by linguists.

Derived terms

• Leipziger
• Leipzig yellow

Translations

city in Saxony, Germany

• Armenian: Լայպցիգ (hy) (Laypcʻig)
• Belarusian: Ле́йпцыг m (Ljéjpcyh)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 萊比錫／莱比锡 (zh) (Láibǐxī)

• Corsican: Lipsia
• Czech: Lipsko (cs) n
• Dutch: Leipzig (nl)
• Esperanto: Lepsiko
• Finnish: Leipzig (fi)
• French: Leipzig (fr) m
• German: Leipzig (de) n
• Greek: Λειψία (el) f (Leipsía), Λιψία (el) f (Lipsía)
• Hungarian: Lipcse (hu)
• Italian: Lipsia (it)
• Japanese: ライプツィヒ (Raiputsihi)
• Latin: Lipsia
• Latvian: Leipciga (lv)
• Lithuanian: Leipcigas
• Macedonian: Лајпциг m (Lajpcig)
• Norwegian: Leipzig
• Polish: Lipsk (pl) m
• Portuguese: Leipzig, Lípsia
• Romanian: Lipsca
• Russian: Ле́йпциг (ru) m (Léjpcig)
• Sicilian: Lipsia f
• Slovak: Lipsko n
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Lipsk m

  Upper Sorbian: Lipsk m

• Spanish: Leipzig (es), Lipsia
• Swedish: Leipzig (sv)
• Turkish: Leipzig
• Ukrainian: Ле́йпциг m (Léjpcyh)
• Vietnamese: Lai-xích

Catalan

Proper noun

Leipzig m

1. Leipzig

German

Etymology

From a Slavic name like Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian Lipsk (literally “place of linden trees”); compare Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian lipa, from Proto-Slavic *lìpa, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *léiˀpāˀ. Early spellings of the name in Latin include Libzi, Lipzk and the standard Lipsia.

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪpt͡sɪç/

• Audio (standard)

  (file)

• (southern) IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪpt͡sɪk/

• Audio (southern)

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Leip‧zig

Proper noun

Leipzig n (proper noun, genitive Leipzigs or (optionally with an article) Leipzig)

1. Leipzig (a city in Saxony, Germany)
   • 1808, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Auerbachs Keller in Leipzig”, in Faust: Der Tragödie erster Teil [Faust, Part One]‎^[1]:

     Wahrhaftig, du hast Recht! Mein Leipzig lob’ ich mir! / Es ist ein klein Paris, und bildet seine Leute.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. A rural district of Saxony. Seat: Borna
3. A hamlet in the Rural Municipality of Reford No. 379, Saskatchewan, Canada
4. Leyptsig (a village in the Varnensky District, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia)

Descendants

• English: Leipzig
• Portuguese: Leipzig

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Leipzig.

Proper noun

Leipzig

1. Leipzig (a city in Saxony, Germany)

   Synonym: Lípsia