Leipzig
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From German Leipzig, from Slavic.
Pronunciation
- (Anglicised) IPA(key): /ˈlaɪp.sɪɡ/,[1][2][3][4][5] /ˈlaɪp.sɪk/[2][4][5]
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (as German) /ˈlaɪp.tsɪk/[5]
Proper noun
Leipzig
- An independent city in Saxony, Germany
- The Leipzig Glossing Rules or glossing style, a style of glossing used by linguists.
Derived terms
Translations
city in Saxony, Germany
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References
- ^ “Leipzig”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 “Leipzig”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- ^ “Leipzig”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 “Leipzig”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 “Leipzig”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
Catalan
Proper noun
Leipzig m
German
Etymology
From a Slavic name like Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian Lipsk (literally “place of linden trees”); compare Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian lipa, from Proto-Slavic *lìpa, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *léiˀpāˀ. Early spellings of the name in Latin include Libzi, Lipzk and the standard Lipsia.
Pronunciation
- (standard) IPA(key): /ˈlaɪpt͡sɪç/
Audio (standard): (file) - (southern) IPA(key): /ˈlaɪpt͡sɪk/
Audio (Southern): (file) - Hyphenation: Leip‧zig
Proper noun
Leipzig n (proper noun, genitive Leipzigs or (optionally with an article) Leipzig)
- Leipzig (a city in Saxony, Germany)
- 1808, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Auerbachs Keller in Leipzig”, in Faust: Der Tragödie erster Teil [Faust, Part One]:
- Wahrhaftig, du hast Recht! Mein Leipzig lob’ ich mir! / Es ist ein klein Paris, und bildet seine Leute.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- A rural district of Saxony. Seat: Borna
- A hamlet in the Rural Municipality of Reford No. 379, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Leyptsig (a village in the Varnensky District, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia)
Descendants
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from German Leipzig.
Proper noun
Leipzig