stolica

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See also: stolicą

Old Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stolica. By surface analysis, stół +‎ -ica. First attested in 1471.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

stolica f

  1. chair, seat (equipment for sitting)
    • 1901 [1471], Materiały i Prace Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie, volume V, page 85:
      Na stoliczy super sellam (super sellam iudicis non sedebunt Ecclus 38, 38)
      [Na stolicy super sellam (super sellam iudicis non sedebunt Ecclus 38, 38)]
  2. throne (place of sitting for a ruler)
    • 1901 [1471], Materiały i Prace Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie, volume V, page 13:
      Stolyczą (war. kal.: palacz) solium (uno tantum regni solio te praecedam Gen 41, 40)
      [Stolica (war. kal.: pałac) solium (uno tantum regni solio te praecedam Gen 41, 40)]
    • 1901 [15th century], Materiały i Prace Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie, volume V, page 112:
      K stoliczy solio (qui separati estis in diem malum et appropinquatis solio iniquitatis Am 6, 3)
      [K stolicy solio (qui separati estis in diem malum et appropinquatis solio iniquitatis Am 6, 3)]

Descendants

  • Polish: stolica
  • Silesian: stolica

References

  • Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “stół”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  • 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), “stolica”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Polish

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Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish stolica. Sense 1 is from sense 4 with a shift of seat for a leader -> place of authority.

Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -it͡sa
  • Syllabification: sto‧li‧ca

Noun

stolica f (related adjective stołeczny)

  1. capital, capital city (city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority for a nation)
    Synonym: miasto stołeczne
  2. capital, capital city (main city of a region)
  3. capital (most important area in the field specified)
  4. (obsolete) throne (seat for a leader)
    Synonym: tron
  5. (obsolete) bench (long seat with or without a back)
    Synonym: ława
  6. (obsolete) scaffold (platform for executions)
    Synonym: szafot
  7. (obsolete) kneading board, pastry board
    Synonym: stolnica
  8. (obsolete) back part of the box of a manual chaff cutter
  9. (obsolete) carpenter's tool for holding a whittled object

Declension

Derived terms

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Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), stolica is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 15 times in scientific texts, 66 times in news, 9 times in essays, 8 times in fiction, and 6 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 104 times, making it the 598th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “stolica”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 562

Further reading

Serbo-Croatian

Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia sh

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stolica.

Pronunciation

Noun

stòlica f (Cyrillic spelling сто̀лица)

  1. chair
    Synonym: stòlac
  2. (medicine) stool
  3. (archaic) capital city
    Synonyms: glàvnī grȃd, prijéstōlnica

Declension

Further reading

  • stolica”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
  • stolica”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
  • stolica”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Silesian

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Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish stolica. By surface analysis, stół +‎ -ica. Sense 1 is a semantic loan from Polish stolica and displaced głōwne miasto.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stɔˈli.t͡sa/
  • Rhymes: -it͡sa
  • Syllabification: sto‧li‧ca

Noun

stolica f

  1. capital, capital city
    Synonym: głōwne miasto
  2. table (furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses)
  3. (architecture) platform, tribune, pulpit (raised stage from which speeches are made)
  4. strip foundation
  5. bench (long seat with or without a back)

Declension

Further reading

  • stolica in silling.org
  • Barbara Podgórska, Adam Podgóski (2008) “stolica”, in Słownik gwar śląskich, Katowice: Wydawnictwo KOS, →ISBN, page 264

Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stolica.

Pronunciation

Noun

stolica f

  1. (work) bench
  2. stool(s) (waste matter)

Declension

Further reading