stolica

See also: stolicą

Old Polish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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 [15th century], 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

• Polish: stolica
• Silesian: stolica

References

• Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “stół”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “stolica”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Polish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stɔˈli.t͡sa/
• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /stɔˈli.t͡sa/

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• Rhymes: -it͡sa
• Syllabification: sto‧li‧ca

Noun

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

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

nouns

• duchowa stolica
• Stolica Apostolska

 

Related terms

nouns

• stołeczność

 

Trivia

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.

Further reading

• 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
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “stolica”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1915), “stolica”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 6, Warsaw, page 429

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stolica.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stǒlit͡sa/

Noun

stòlica f (Cyrillic spelling сто̀лица)

1. chair

   Synonym: stòlac

2. (medicine) stool
3. (archaic) capital city

   Synonyms: glàvnī grȃd, prijéstōlnica

Declension

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

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

Silesian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

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

• 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

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stolica.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈstɔlit͡sa]

Noun

stolica f

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

Declension

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

• “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