miesto

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See also: mīestõ

Lithuanian

Noun

miẽsto

  1. genitive singular of miẽstas

Old Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *město. Doublet of město.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (13th CE) /ˈmi̯ɛːsto/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /ˈmiːsto/

Noun

miesto n

  1. place, territory, area
  2. place (part of a whole)
  3. place (passage of a text)
  4. (with an ordinal number) place (position in series)
  5. place, position, post
  6. place (correct or proper place)
  7. aim, goal, end

Declension

Declension of miesto (hard o-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative miesto miestě miesta
genitive miesta miestú miest
dative miestu miestoma miestóm
accusative miesto miestě miesta
vocative miesto miestě miesta
locative miestě, miestu miestú miestiech
instrumental miestem miestoma miesty
This table shows the most common forms around the 13th century.
See also Appendix:Old Czech nouns and Appendix:Old Czech pronunciation.

Descendants

  • Czech: místo

References

Old Polish

Pronunciation

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

Noun

miesto n

  1. Alternative form of miasto

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

miesto n (Cyrillic spelling миесто)

  1. Obsolete spelling of mjesto.

Slovak

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Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *město. Cognates include Czech místo.

Pronunciation

Noun

miesto n (genitive singular miesta, nominative plural miesta, genitive plural miest, declension pattern of mesto)

  1. location
  2. place

Declension

Declension of miesto
singular plural
nominative miesto miesta
genitive miesta miest
dative miestu miestam
accusative miesto miesta
locative mieste miestach
instrumental miestom miestami

Preposition

miesto + genitive

  1. instead of

Conjunction

miesto aby

  1. rather than

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “miesto”, 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, 2003–2025
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