stolica

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stolica. By surface analysis, stół +‎ -ica. First attested in 1471.

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /stɔlʲit͡sa/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /stɔlʲit͡sa/

stolica f

1. chair, seat (equipment for sitting)
   • 1901 [1471], Materiały i Prace Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie, volume V, page 85:

     Na stoliczy super sellam (super sellam iudicis non sedebunt Ecclus 38, 38)

     [Na stolicy super sellam (super sellam iudicis non sedebunt Ecclus 38, 38)]

2. throne (place of sitting for a ruler)
   • 1901 [1471], Materiały i Prace Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie, volume V, page 13:

     Stolyczą (war. kal.: palacz) solium (uno tantum regni solio te praecedam Gen 41, 40)

     [Stolica (war. kal.: pałac) solium (uno tantum regni solio te praecedam Gen 41, 40)]

   • 1901 [-], Materiały i Prace Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie, volume V, page 112:

     K stoliczy solio (qui separati estis in diem malum et appropinquatis solio iniquitatis Am 6, 3)

     [K stolicy solio (qui separati estis in diem malum et appropinquatis solio iniquitatis Am 6, 3)]

• Polish: stolica
• Silesian: stolica

• Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “stół”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “stolica”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Inherited from Old Polish stolica. Sense 1 is from sense 4 with a shift of seat for a leader -> place of authority.

• IPA^(key): /stɔˈli.t͡sa/
• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /stɔˈli.t͡sa/

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• Rhymes: -it͡sa
• Syllabification: sto‧li‧ca

stolica f (related adjective stołeczny)

1. capital, capital city (city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority for a nation)

   Synonym: miasto stołeczne

2. capital, capital city (main city of a region)
3. capital (most important area in the field specified)
4. (obsolete) throne (seat for a leader)

   Synonym: tron

5. (obsolete) bench (long seat with or without a back)

   Synonym: ława

6. (obsolete) scaffold (platform for executions)

   Synonym: szafot

7. (obsolete) kneading board, pastry board

   Synonym: stolnica

8. (obsolete) back part of the box of a manual chaff cutter
9. (obsolete) carpenter's tool for holding a whittled object

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), stolica is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 15 times in scientific texts, 66 times in news, 9 times in essays, 8 times in fiction, and 6 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 104 times, making it the 598th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

• stolica in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• stolica in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “stolica”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• “STOLICA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 16.03.2009
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “stolica”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “stolica”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1915), “stolica”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎ (in Polish), volume 6, Warsaw, page 429

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stolica.

• IPA^(key): /stǒlit͡sa/

stòlica f (Cyrillic spelling сто̀лица)

1. chair

   Synonym: stòlac

2. (medicine) stool
3. (archaic) capital city

   Synonyms: glàvnī grȃd, prijéstōlnica

• “stolica” in Hrvatski jezični portal
• “stolica” in Hrvatski jezični portal
• “stolica” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Inherited from Old Polish stolica. By surface analysis, stół +‎ -ica. Sense 1 is a semantic loan from Polish stolica and displaced głōwne miasto.

• IPA^(key): /stɔˈlit͡sa/
• Rhymes: -it͡sa
• Syllabification: sto‧li‧ca

stolica f

1. capital, capital city

   Synonym: głōwne miasto

2. table (furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses)
3. (architecture) platform, tribune, pulpit (raised stage from which speeches are made)
4. strip foundation
5. bench (long seat with or without a back)

• stolica in silling.org
• Barbara Podgórska, Adam Podgóski (2008) “stolica”, in Słownik gwar śląskich [A dictionary of Silesian lects], Katowice: Wydawnictwo KOS, →ISBN, page 264

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stolica.

• IPA^(key): [ˈstɔlit͡sa]

stolica f

1. (work) bench
2. stool(s) (waste matter)

• “stolica”, 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