stanica

See also: stanicą, Stănica, and Stănică

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish stanica. By surface analysis, stan +‎ -ica. Sense 3 is a semantic loan from Russian стани́ца (staníca).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /staˈɲi.t͡sa/

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• Rhymes: -it͡sa
• Syllabification: sta‧ni‧ca

Noun

stanica f

1. (tourism) riverside hostel
2. (archaic, military) border watchtower

   Hypernym: strażnica

4. (historical) stanitsa (Cossack village)

   Hypernym: osada

5. (historical, chiefly in the plural, paganism) ensign used by pagan Slavs

   Hypernym: chorągiew

Declension

Declension of stanica

	singular	plural
nominative	stanica	stanice
genitive	stanicy	stanic
dative	stanicy	stanicom
accusative	stanicę	stanice
instrumental	stanicą	stanicami
locative	stanicy	stanicach
vocative	stanico	stanice

Further reading

• stanica in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• stanica in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “stan”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stǎnit͡sa/
• Hyphenation: sta‧ni‧ca

Noun

stànica f (Cyrillic spelling ста̀ница)

1. station

   Synonym: postaja

2. (biology) cell

Declension

Declension of stanica

	singular	plural
nominative	stanica	stanice
genitive	stanice	stanica
dative	stanici	stanicama
accusative	stanicu	stanice
vocative	stanico	stanice
locative	stanici	stanicama
instrumental	stanicom	stanicama

Derived terms

• stàničnī

Further reading

• “stanica”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024