Košice

See also: Kosice and kosíce

English

Alternative forms

• Kosice

Etymology

From Slovak Košice.

Proper noun

Košice

1. The second largest city of Slovakia.

Translations

city

• Azerbaijani: Koşitse
• Belarusian: Ко́шыцы f pl (Kóšycy), Ко́шыцэ n (Kóšyce)
• Carpathian Rusyn: Кошіцї (Košicji)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 科希策 (zh) (Kēxīcè)

• Czech: Košice (cs) f pl
• French: Košice (fr) f, Cassovie f
• German: Košice (de) n, Kaschau (de) n
• Hungarian: Kassa (hu)
• Latin: Cassovia f
• Polish: Koszyce (pl) pl
• Romanian: Cașovia f
• Russian: Ко́шице m (Kóšice)
• Slovak: Košice (sk) f pl
• Ukrainian: Ко́шиці f pl (Kóšyci), Ко́шице n (Kóšyce)

Anagrams

• ockies

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkoʃɪt͡sɛ]

Proper noun

Košice f pl (related adjective košický, demonym Košičan)

1. Košice (a city in Slovakia)
   • Druhé největší město Slovenska jsou Košice.

     The second largest city in Slovakia is Košice.

Declension

Declension of Košice (pl-only soft feminine)

	plural
nominative	Košice
genitive	Košic
dative	Košicím, Košicům
accusative	Košice
vocative	Košice
locative	Košicích
instrumental	Košicemi

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

• Kosice

Etymology

Borrowed from Slovak Košice.

Proper noun

Košice m

1. Košice
   1. A city in Slovakia
   2. A region of Slovakia

Synonyms

• Cassovie

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɔʃit͡se]

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Proper noun

Košice f pl (genitive singular Košíc, declension pattern of ulica)

1. Košice (a city in Slovakia)

Declension

Declension of Košice

	plurale tantum
nominative	Košice
genitive	Košíc
dative	Košiciam
accusative	Košice
locative	Košiciach
instrumental	Košicami

Derived terms

• Košičan m
• Košičanka f
• košický

Descendants

• → Chinese: → 科希策 (Kēxīcè) (transliteration)
• English: Kosice
• French: 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

• “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