ulica

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

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

ulica f (related adjective uliczny)

1. (attested in Greater Poland, Lesser Poland) 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, Greater Poland, 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]‎^{scan transliteration, transcription}, numbers 17, 46, Krakow: Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich, z zasiłkiem Sejmu Śląskiego [The Ossoliński National Institute: with the benefit of the Silesian Parliament]:

     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)]

• Polish: ulica
• Silesian: ulica

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

Inherited from Old Polish ulica.

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

ulica f (diminutive uliczka, abbreviation ul.)

1. street (road between houses)
2. (metonymic) 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

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]

• “ulica”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “ulica”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, et al., editors (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

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ulica.

• IPA^(key): /ûlit͡sa/
• Hyphenation: u‧li‧ca
• Rhymes: -it͡sa

ȕlica f (Cyrillic spelling у̏лица)

1. street

• cesta

• “ulica”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Inherited from Old Polish ulica.

• IPA^(key): /uˈli.t͡sa/

• Audio:

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

ulica f (diminutive uliczka, related adjective uliczny)

1. street

• ulica in silling.org

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ulica.

• IPA^(key): /uʎit͡sa/, (high register) [ˈuʎit͡sa], (common) [ˈulit͡sa]
• Rhymes: -it͡sa
• Hyphenation: u‧li‧ca

• Audio (Bratislava):

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ulica f (relational adjective uličný, diminutive ulička or uličôčka)

1. street

• pouličný
• uličník

• “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, 2003–2026

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ulica. First attested in the 16th century.

• IPA^(key): /ùːlit͡sa/

úlica f

1. street

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

• “ulica”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2026