Grodek

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish Gródek.

Proper noun

Grodek ? sg (indeclinable)

  1. Horodok (a city in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine)
    • 1581, Alexander Guagnini, Sarmatiae Europeae descriptio, quae regnum Poloniae, Lituaniam, Samogitiam, Russiam, Massoviam, Prussiam, Pomeraniam, Livoniam, et Moschoviae, Tartariaeque partem complectitur [Description of European Sarmatia, Which Encompasses the Kingdom of Poland, Lithuania, Samogitia, Russia, Mazovia, Prussia, Pomerania, Livonia, Muscovy, and Part of Tartary], folio 39v:
      Grodek ciuitas circumſepta, vna cum arce in planicie ſtagnis circumuallata, à Leopoli 4. miliar.
      Horodok, a walled city, one with a citadel on a plain surrounded by lakes, 4 miles from Lviv.