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Košice
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Kosice kosíce
English
Alternative forms
en Kosice
Etymology
From en sk Košice.
Proper noun
The second largest city of Slovakia.
Translations
city
Azerbaijani: az Koşitse
Belarusian: be Ко́шыцы f-p, be Ко́шыцэ n
Carpathian Rusyn: rue Кошіцї
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 科希策 Kēxīcè
Czech: cs Košice f-p
French: fr Košice f, fr Cassovie f
German: de Košice n, de Kaschau n
Hungarian: hu Kassa
Latin: la Cassovia f
Pannonian Rusyn: rsk Кошице f-p
Polish: pl Koszyce p
Romanian: ro Cașovia f
Russian: ru Ко́шице m
Slovak: sk Košice f-p
Ukrainian: uk Ко́шиці f-p, uk Ко́шице n
Anagrams
en ceikos ockies
en Cities in Slovakia Places in Slovakia
Czech
cs:
Pronunciation
Proper noun
f-p košický Košičan
cs city c/Slovakia Košice
cs Druhé největší město Slovenska jsou Košice. The second largest city in Slovakia is Košice.
Declension
f.pl.datplím:ům
Further reading
French
fr:
Alternative forms
fr Kosice
Etymology
fr :bor sk:Košice
fr sk Košice.
Proper noun
m
en Košice
fr city c/Slovakia
fr region c/Slovakia
Synonyms
fr Cassovie
Slovak
sk:
Etymology
The second element is from the common sk sla - patronymic suffix sk -ice. The first element is of uncertain origin, possibly from the personal name sk Koš, sk Koša, or from Old Slovak sk kosa clearing (from sk sla-pro *kositi to reap), or of sk ohu - origin. More at Košice.
Pronunciation
sk Sk-Košice.ogg
Proper noun
f-p Košíc ulica
sk city c/Slovakia Košice
Declension
f pl
Derived terms
sk Košičan m
sk Košičanka f
sk košický
Descendants
zh 科希策 1
en Kosice
fr Kosice
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