sotnia
See also: sotnią
English
editEtymology
editFrom Russian сотня (sotnja, “hundred”).
Noun
editsotnia (plural sotnias)
- (now historical) A Russian or Ukrainian army unit of about a hundred soldiers, chiefly with reference to Cossacks.
- 1908, Reconnaissance in the Russo-Japanese War, page 33:
- On March 27 Mischtschenko marched from Koksan to Chonju, with 2 sotnias out of the 6 as advance guard.
- 2002, Josepth Roth, translated by Michael Hofmann, The Radetsky March, Folio Society, published 2015, page 134:
- In the wide plains that lay between the border forests of Russia and Austria, sotnias of Cossacks galloped about, uniformed winds in military order, mounted on the short, nippy horses of their native steppes […].
Anagrams
editPolish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Russian со́тня (sótnja). Doublet of setnia.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsotnia f
- (historical, military) sotnia (Russian or Ukrainian army unit of about a hundred soldiers, chiefly with reference to Cossacks)
Declension
editDeclension of sotnia
Further reading
edit- sotnia in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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