stolica

See also: stolicą

Old Polish

Etymology

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

    Pronunciation

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

    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 [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

    Polish

    Etymology

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

      Pronunciation

       
      • IPA(key): /stɔˈli.t͡sa/
      • Audio:(file)
      • 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. (Żywiec) bench (long seat with or without a back)
        Synonym: ława
      6. (obsolete) scaffold (platform for executions)
        Synonym: szafot

      Declension

      Derived terms

      nouns
      nouns
      • stołeczność

      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 [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 562

      Further reading

      Serbo-Croatian

      Etymology

      Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stolica.

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /stǒlit͡sa/

      Noun

      stòlica f (Cyrillic spelling сто̀лица)

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

      Declension

      Declension of stolica
      singular plural
      nominative stòlica stòlice
      genitive stòlicē stȍlīcā
      dative stòlici stòlicama
      accusative stòlicu stòlice
      vocative stòlice stòlice
      locative stòlici stòlicama
      instrumental stòlicōm stòlicama

      Further reading

      • stolica”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026
      • stolica”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026
      • stolica”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

      Silesian

      Etymology

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

        Pronunciation

        • IPA(key): /stɔˈli.t͡sa/
        • Audio:(file)
        • 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

        Declension of stolica
        singular plural
        nominative stolica stolice
        genitive stolice stolic
        dative stolicy stolicōm
        accusative stolicã stolice
        instrumental stolicōm stolicami/stolicōma
        locative stolicy stolicach
        vocative stolico stolice

        Further reading

        • stolica in silling.org
        • Barbara Podgórska; Adam Podgóski (2008), “stolica”, in Słownik gwar śląskich [A dictionary of Silesian dialects] (in Polish), Katowice: Wydawnictwo KOS, →ISBN, page 264

        Slovak

        Etymology

        Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stolica.

        Pronunciation

        • IPA(key): /stɔʎit͡sa/, (high register) [ˈstɔʎit͡sa], (common) [ˈstɔlit͡sa]
        • Rhymes: -it͡sa
        • Hyphenation: sto‧li‧ca

        Noun

        stolica f

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

        Declension

        Declension of stolica
        (pattern ulica)
        singularplural
        nominativestolicastolice
        genitivestolicestolíc
        dativestolicistoliciam
        accusativestolicustolice
        locativestolicistoliciach
        instrumentalstolicoustolicami

        Further reading

        • stolica”, 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, 2003–2026