miesto

See also: mīestõ

Lithuanian

Noun

miẽsto

1. genitive singular of miẽstas

Old Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *město. Doublet of město.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈmi̯ɛːsto/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈmiːsto/

Noun

miesto n

1. place, territory, area
2. place (part of a whole)
3. place (passage of a text)
4. (with an ordinal number) place (position in series)
5. place, position, post
6. place (correct or proper place)
7. aim, goal, end

Declension

Declension of miesto (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	miesto	miestě	miesta
genitive	miesta	miestú	miest
dative	miestu	miestoma	miestóm
accusative	miesto	miestě	miesta
vocative	miesto	miestě	miesta
locative	miestě, miestu	miestú	miestiech
instrumental	miestem	miestoma	miesty

This table shows the most common forms around the 13th century.
See also Appendix:Old Czech nouns and Appendix:Old Czech pronunciation.

Descendants

• Czech: místo

References

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “miesto”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

Old Polish

Pronunciation

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

Noun

miesto n

1. Alternative form of miasto

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

miesto n (Cyrillic spelling миесто)

1. Obsolete spelling of mjesto

Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *město. Cognates include Czech místo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi̯ɛstɔ/

Noun

miesto n (genitive singular miesta, nominative plural miesta, genitive plural miest, declension pattern of mesto)

1. location
2. place

Declension

Declension of miesto

	singular	plural
nominative	miesto	miesta
genitive	miesta	miest
dative	miestu	miestam
accusative	miesto	miesta
locative	mieste	miestach
instrumental	miestom	miestami

Preposition

miesto + genitive

1. instead of

Conjunction

miesto aby

1. rather than

Derived terms

• miestečko
• miestny

Further reading

• “miesto”, 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