ulica

See also: ulicą, ulicã, and ûlica

Old Polish

Etymology

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

    Pronunciation

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

    Noun

    ulica f (related adjective uliczny)

    1. (attested in Greater Poland, Lesser Poland) 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, Greater Poland, 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 [Sankt Florian Psalter]‎scan transliteration, transcription, numbers 17, 46, Krakow: Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich, z zasiłkiem Sejmu Śląskiego [The Ossoliński National Institute: with the benefit of the Silesian Parliament]:
        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

    • Polish: ulica
    • Silesian: ulica

    References

    • Boryś, Wiesław (2005), “ulica”, 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), “ulica”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

    Polish

    Etymology

      Inherited from Old Polish ulica.

      Pronunciation

       
      • IPA(key): /uˈli.t͡sa/
      • Audio 1:(file)
      • Audio 2:(file)
      • Rhymes: -it͡sa
      • Syllabification: u‧li‧ca

      Noun

      ulica f (diminutive uliczka, abbreviation ul.)

      1. street (road between houses)
      2. (metonymic) 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

      adverb
      • na ulicę
      nouns
      • dziecko ulicy
      • język ulicy
      • prawo ulicy
      • rządy ulicy
      verbs
      • leżeć na ulicy impf
      • pracować na ulicy impf
      • trafić na ulicę pf, trafiać na ulicę impf
      • wychować się na ulicy pf, wychowywać się na ulicy impf

      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.[1]

      References

      1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “ulica”, 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 628

      Further reading

      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

      Declension of ulica
      singular plural
      nominative ȕlica ȕlice
      genitive ȕlicē ȕlīcā
      dative ȕlici ȕlicama
      accusative ȕlicu ȕlice
      vocative ȕlice ȕlice
      locative ȕlici ȕlicama
      instrumental ȕlicōm ȕlicama

      See also

      Further reading

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

      Silesian

      Etymology

        Inherited from Old Polish ulica.

        Pronunciation

        • IPA(key): /uˈli.t͡sa/
        • Audio:(file)
        • Rhymes: -it͡sa
        • Syllabification: u‧li‧ca

        Noun

        ulica f (diminutive uliczka, related adjective uliczny)

        1. street

        Declension

        Declension of ulica
        singular plural
        nominative ulica ulice
        genitive ulice ulic
        dative ulicy ulicōm
        accusative ulicã ulice
        instrumental ulicōm ulicami/ulicōma
        locative ulicy ulicach
        vocative ulico ulice
        adverb
        • ulicznie

        Further reading

        Slovak

        Etymology

        Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ulica.

        Pronunciation

        • IPA(key): /uʎit͡sa/, (high register) [ˈuʎit͡sa], (common) [ˈulit͡sa]
        • Rhymes: -it͡sa
        • Hyphenation: u‧li‧ca
        • Audio (Bratislava):(file)

        Noun

        ulica f (relational adjective uličný, diminutive ulička or uličôčka)

        1. street

        Declension

        Declension of ulica
        (pattern ulica)
        singularplural
        nominativeulicaulice
        genitiveuliceulíc
        dativeuliciuliciam
        accusativeulicuulice
        locativeuliciuliciach
        instrumentalulicouulicami

        Derived terms

        • pouličný
        • uličník

        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, 2003–2026

        Slovene

        Etymology

        Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ulica. First attested in the 16th century.

        Pronunciation

        • IPA(key): /ùːlit͡sa/

        Noun

        úlica f

        1. street

        Declension

        The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
        Feminine, a-stem
        nom. sing. úlica
        gen. sing. úlice
        singular dual plural
        nominative
        (imenovȃlnik)
        úlica úlici úlice
        genitive
        (rodȋlnik)
        úlice úlic úlic
        dative
        (dajȃlnik)
        úlici úlicama úlicam
        accusative
        (tožȋlnik)
        úlico úlici úlice
        locative
        (mẹ̑stnik)
        úlici úlicah úlicah
        instrumental
        (orọ̑dnik)
        úlico úlicama úlicami

        Further reading

        • ulica”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2026