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Etymology Edit

Inherited from Old Czech obec, from Proto-Slavic *obьťь.

Pronunciation Edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈobɛt͡s]
  • (file)

Noun Edit

obec f

  1. municipality, village, locality, community

Declension Edit

Derived terms Edit

Further reading Edit

  • obec in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • obec in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • obec in Internetová jazyková příručka

Old Czech Edit

Alternative forms Edit

Etymology Edit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *obьťь.

Pronunciation Edit

  • IPA(key): (13th CE) /ˈobɛt͡s/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /ˈobɛt͡s/

Noun Edit

obec f

  1. community (society of people living together in a certain territory)
    1. community of the same religious faith, especially a Christian one
  2. common people, laity (as opposed to people)
  3. estate (layers of the population participating in power in a feudal state)
  4. municipal assembly (collective of people settled in the village and participating in its self-administration)
  5. Hussite military-power group (revolutionary attempt to create Hussite state power)
  6. (in translations of Latin) state, empire
  7. municipality (territorial district of the municipal)
  8. common property belonging to everyone

Declension Edit

Descendants Edit

  • Czech: obec
  • Old Polish: obec

References Edit

Old Polish Edit

Etymology Edit

Borrowed from Old Czech obec. Doublet of obiec, an inherited form. First attested in 1439.

Pronunciation Edit

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

Noun Edit

obec f

  1. A vestigial institution of land law consisting in appointing in customary cases, e.g. when nobility is reprimanded, a group of witnesses with an unblemished reputation, long settled in a given area.
    Synonym: obiec
    • 1878-1889 [1439], Archiwum Komisji Historycznej[1], volume III, page 343:
      Nobilis Andreas produxit... duos nobiles... post patrem, item produxit nobilem Petrum... et Martinum... post matrem, item produxit duos tercios... de communibus al. s obcze... Iurauerunt primi et sequentes..., quod... Andreas... est nobilis
      [Nobilis Andreas produxit... duos nobiles... post patrem, item produxit nobilem Petrum... et Martinum... post matrem, item produxit duos tercios... de communibus al. z obce... Iurauerunt primi et sequentes..., quod... Andreas... est nobilis]

Descendants Edit

References Edit

Polish Edit

Etymology Edit

Inherited from Old Polish obec. Displaced and doublet of obiec, an inherited form.

Pronunciation Edit

Noun Edit

obec f

  1. (obsolete) community; group; gathering
    Synonym: (Middle Polish) obiec

Declension Edit

Derived terms Edit

preposition

Related terms Edit

adjecetive
adverb
noun

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