obec

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Czech

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

obec f

  1. municipality, village, locality, community

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • 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)

Old Czech

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *obьťь.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

Declension

Descendants

  • Czech: obec
  • Old Polish: obec

References

Old Polish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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]

Descendants

References

  • 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

Old Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *obьťь.

Noun

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

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Descendants

References

  • 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

Polish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

obec f

  1. (obsolete) community; group; gathering
    Synonym: (Middle Polish) obiec

Declension

Derived terms

preposition
adjecetive
adverb
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Further reading

Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Old Slovak obec.

Pronunciation

Noun

obec f

  1. municipality

Declension

Derived terms

adjectives
nouns

Further reading

  • 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, 2024