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

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