ulica

Old Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ulica. First attested in 1258.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ulica f (related adjective uliczny)

1. street (road between houses in a village)
   • 1877-1999, Franciszek Piekosiński, Antoni Gąsiorowski, Henryk Kowalewicz, Ryszard Walczak, Tomasz Jasiński, Izabela Skierska, editors, Kodeks dyplomatyczny Wielkopolski. Codex diplomaticus Maioris Poloniae [Diplomatic Code of Greater Poland], volume I, page 308:

     Adiungimus eciam sibi domum in civitate penes plateam, que vocatur Thkaczka ulicza

     [Adiungimus eciam sibi domum in civitate penes plateam, que vocatur Thkaczka ulica]

   • 1939 [end of the 14th century], Ryszard Ganszyniec, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Kubica, Ludwik Bernacki, editors, Psałterz florjański łacińsko-polsko-niemiecki [Latin-Polish-German Florian Psalter]‎, Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich, z zasiłkiem Sejmu Śląskiego [The Ossoliński National Institute: with the benefit of the Silesian Parliament], pages 17, 46:

     Iaco bloto vlicz (platearum) sgladzø ie

     [Jako błoto ulic (platearum) zgładzę je]

2. mistranslation of the ambiguous Latin vīcus as 'street' instead of 'village'
   • 1977-1980 [1471], Wanda Żurowska-Górecka, Vladimír Kyas, editors, Mamotrekty staropolskie [Old Polish-Latin Dictionaries and wordlists], page 267:

     Vliczie vicos (dimitte illos, ut euntes in proximas villas et vicos emant sibi cibos Marc 6, 36)

     [Ulice vicos (dimitte illos, ut euntes in proximas villas et vicos emant sibi cibos Marc 6, 36)]

Derived terms

Descendants

• Masurian: ûlica
• Polish: ulica
• Silesian: ulica

References

• Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “ulica”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “ulica”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

ulica

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish ulica.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uˈli.t͡sa/
• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /uˈli.t͡sa/

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

Noun

ulica f (diminutive uliczka, abbreviation ul.)

1. street (road between houses)
2. (metonymically) street (people on a street)
3. (colloquial, sociology) public opinion (society as an exponent of views and assessments of current political, social, and cultural life)

   Synonyms: opinia publiczna, vox populi

4. (obsolete) crowd; urban proletariat
5. (obsolete) path in a park or garden

   Synonym: ścieżka

Declension

Derived terms

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), ulica is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 11 times in scientific texts, 163 times in news, 20 times in essays, 53 times in fiction, and 18 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 265 times, making it the 197th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

References

Further reading

• ulica in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• ulica in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “ulica”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• “ULICA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 31.10.2018
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “ulica”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “ulica”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “ulica”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎ (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 279

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ulica.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ûlit͡sa/
• Hyphenation: u‧li‧ca
• Rhymes: -it͡sa

Noun

ȕlica f (Cyrillic spelling у̏лица)

1. street

Declension

See also

• cesta

Silesian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish ulica.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uˈlit͡sa/
• Rhymes: -it͡sa
• Syllabification: u‧li‧ca

Noun

ulica f (diminutive uliczka, related adjective uliczny)

1. street

Declension

Related terms

Further reading

• ulica in silling.org

Slovak

Slovak Wikipedia has an article on:

ulica

Wikipedia ^sk

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ulica.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

ulica f (genitive singular ulice, nominative plural ulice, genitive plural ulíc, declension pattern of ulica, related adjective uličný)

1. street

Declension

Derived terms

• pouličný
• uličný
• uličník
• uličôčka

Further reading

• “ulica”, 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

Slovene

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ulica.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ùːlit͡sa/

Noun

úlica f

1. street

Inflection

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Further reading

• “ulica”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran