obec

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Inherited from Old Czech obec, from Proto-Slavic *obьťь.

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obec f

1. municipality, village, locality, community

• “obec”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “obec”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “obec”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

• obcě

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *obьťь.

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈobɛt͡s/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈobɛt͡s/

obec f

1. community (society of people living together in a certain territory)
   1. community of the same religious faith, especially a Christian one
2. common people, laity (as opposed to people)
3. estate (layers of the population participating in power in a feudal state)
4. municipal assembly (collective of people settled in the village and participating in its self-administration)
5. Hussite military-power group (revolutionary attempt to create Hussite state power)
6. (in translations of Latin) state, empire
7. municipality (territorial district of the municipal)
8. common property belonging to everyone

• Czech: obec
• → Old Polish: obec
  • Polish: obec

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “obec”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

Borrowed from Old Czech obec. Doublet of obiec, an inherited form. First attested in 1439.

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

obec f

1. (attested in Greater Poland) a vestigial institution of land law consisting in appointing in customary cases, e.g. when nobility is reprimanded, a group of witnesses with an unblemished reputation, long settled in a given area

   Synonym: obiec

   • 1878-1889 [1439], Archiwum Komisji Historycznej‎, volume III, Greater Poland, page 343:

     Nobilis Andreas produxit... duos nobiles... post patrem, item produxit nobilem Petrum... et Martinum... post matrem, item produxit duos tercios... de communibus al. s obcze... Iurauerunt primi et sequentes..., quod... Andreas... est nobilis

     [Nobilis Andreas produxit... duos nobiles... post patrem, item produxit nobilem Petrum... et Martinum... post matrem, item produxit duos tercios... de communibus al. z obce... Iurauerunt primi et sequentes..., quod... Andreas... est nobilis]

• Polish: obec

• Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “obec”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
• 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), “obec”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *obьťь.

obec f

1. a trade, labour, interest, religious or animal community, society
2. the common people (the lower social classe)
3. broader committee of town, village or guild self-government; elected board of directors
4. territorial area of urban or village self-government
5. a village (the smallest economic-administrative unit)
6. empire, state
7. common property (which belongs to all)
8. the whole

• Slovak: obec

• Majtán, Milan et al., editors (1991–2008), “obec”, in Historický slovník slovenského jazyka [Historical Dictionary of the Slovak Language] (in Slovak), volumes 1–7 (A – Ž), Bratislava: VEDA, →OCLC

Inherited from Old Polish obec. Displaced and doublet of obiec, an inherited form.

• Rhymes: -ɔbɛt͡s
• Syllabification: o‧bec

obec f

1. (obsolete) community; group; gathering

   Synonym: (Middle Polish) obiec

• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “obec, obiec”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “obec”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “obec”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “obec”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 447

Inherited from Old Slovak obec.

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obec f

1. municipality

• “obec”, 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, 2003–2024