Szczecin

See also: szczecin

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish Szczecin.

Proper noun

Szczecin

1. A city in what is now Poland; the capital of West Pomeranian Voivodeship; Stettin.

   Synonym: Stettin

Translations

city in Poland

• Arabic: شْتِتِين f (štitīn)
• Belarusian: Шчэ́цін m (Ščécin)
• Bulgarian: Шче́чин m (Ščéčin)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 什切青 (zh) (Shíqièqīng)

• Czech: Štětín (cs) m
• Danish: Stettin n
• Farefare: Tɛtɩn
• Finnish: Szczecin (fi)
• French: Szczecin (fr) m, Stettin (fr) m
• Georgian: შჩეცინი (ščecini)
• German: Stettin (de) n, Szczecin (de) n
• Greek: Στσέτσιν n (Stsétsin)
• Italian: Stettino (it)
• Japanese: シュチェチン (Shuchechin)
• Kashubian: Sztetëno, Szczecëno
• Korean: 슈체친 (Syuchechin)
• Latin: Stettinum n
• Latvian: Ščecina f
• Lithuanian: Ščecinas m
• Low German:

  German Low German: Stettin

• Macedonian: Шчечин m (Ščečin)
• Polish: Szczecin (pl) m
• Portuguese: Stettin f, Szczecin f, Estetino m
• Russian: Ще́цин (ru) m (Ščécin)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Шчећин m

  Roman: Szczecin m, Ščećin m

• Silesian: Sztetin m
• Slovak: Štetín m
• Slovene: Szczecin m
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: Šćećin m

• Spanish: Szczecin m, Stettin m
• Swedish: Stettin n
• Ukrainian: Ще́цин m (Ščécyn)
• Yiddish: שטעטין n (shtetin), שטשעטשין n (shtshetshin)

Polish

Szczecin

Etymology

Most likely from szczeć (“teasel”) +‎ -in. The city at one time had a German name, Bürstenburg, of similar meaning.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʂt͡ʂɛ.t͡ɕin/

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• Rhymes: -ɛt͡ɕin
• Syllabification: Szcze‧cin
• Homophone: szczecin

Proper noun

Szczecin m inan

1. Szczecin (the capital city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)

Declension

Declension of Szczecin

	singular
nominative	Szczecin
genitive	Szczecina
dative	Szczecinowi
accusative	Szczecin
instrumental	Szczecinem
locative	Szczecinie
vocative	Szczecinie

Derived terms

adjective

• szczeciński

 

nouns

• szczeciniak
• szczecinianin
• szczecinianka

 

Further reading

• Szczecin in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Szczecin in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Proper noun

Szczecin f

1. Szczecin, Stettin (a city in the West Pomerania, Poland)

   Synonym: Stettin