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Halicia

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Latin

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ukrainian Га́лич (Hályč), from Old East Slavic Галичь (Galičĭ). Doublet of Galicia.

Proper noun

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Halicia f sg (genitive Haliciae); first declension

  1. (New Latin) Halych (a city in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine)
    • 1581, Alexander Guagnini, Sarmatiae Europeae descriptio, quae regnum Poloniae, Lituaniam, Samogitiam, Russiam, Massoviam, Prussiam, Pomeraniam, Livoniam, et Moschoviae, Tartariaeque partem complectitur [Description of European Sarmatia, Which Encompasses the Kingdom of Poland, Lithuania, Samogitia, Russia, Mazovia, Prussia, Pomerania, Livonia, Muscovy, and Part of Tartary], folio 39v:
      Halicia ciuitas lignea ampliſsima antiquitus condita
      Halych, a most esteemed wooden city founded in antiquity

Declension

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First-declension noun, singular only.

singular
nominative Halicia
genitive Haliciae
dative Haliciae
accusative Haliciam
ablative Haliciā
vocative Halicia

Derived terms

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