Košice
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English
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Etymology
Proper noun
Košice
- The second largest city of Slovakia.
Translations
city
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Anagrams
Czech
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Košice f pl (related adjective košický, demonym Košičan)
- Košice (a city in Slovakia)
- Druhé největší město Slovenska jsou Košice.
- The second largest city in Slovakia is Košice.
Declension
Further reading
- “Košice”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935-1957
- “Košice”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “Košice”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Proper noun
Košice m
Synonyms
Slovak
Etymology
The second element is from the common Slavic patronymic suffix -ice. The first element is of uncertain origin, possibly from the personal name Koš, Koša, or from Old Slovak kosa (“clearing”) (from Proto-Slavic *kositi (“to reap”)), or of Old Hungarian origin. More at Košice.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Košice f pl
Declension
Declension of Košice
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- "Z histórie Košíc – 13. storočie" (in Slovak). City of Košice. 2005.
- Štefánik, Martin; Lukačka, Ján, eds. (2010). Lexikón stredovekých miest na Slovensku [Lexicon of Medieval Towns in Slovakia] (PDF) (in Slovak and English). Bratislava: Historický ústav SAV. p. 194.
- Varsik, Branislav (1964). Osídlenie Košickej kotliny I. (in Slovak). Bratislava: Veda, Vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied. p. 193.
- Room, Adrian (December 31, 2003). Placenames of the world: origins and...
- "Old Hungarian names" (PDF). 2009.
Further reading
- “Košice”, 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
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