ulica

See also: ulicą, ulicã, and ûlica

Old Polish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

nouns

Descendants

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

References

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish ulica.

Pronunciation

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

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] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 628

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

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

adverb
  • ulicznie

Further reading

Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ulica.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈulit͡sa]

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

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, portal Fran
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