Stadt
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Etymology[edit]
From Middle High German stat, from Old High German stat, from Proto-West Germanic *stadi, from Proto-Germanic *stadiz, from Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂tis. Doublet of Statt and Stätte.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
Stadt f (genitive Stadt, plural Städte, diminutive Städtchen n or Städtlein n)
- city (large settlement)
- 1931, Gebhard Mehring, Schrift und Schrifttum, Silberburg-Verlag, page 13:
- Der Zerfall des Römerreiches raubte der Stadt Rom die alte Stellung als Mittelpunkt alles Geschehens.
- The decay of the Roman empire robbed the city of Rome of the old position as the center of all that was happening.
- town (settlement larger than a village)
- (metonymically) city center (central business area of a city)
- (metonymically) city, town, town council, city council (governing body of people elected to oversee management of a municipality)
Usage notes[edit]
- For some speakers, the plural has an irregular lengthening of the stem vowel. See Städte.
- Not to be confused with Staat.
Declension[edit]
Declension of Stadt [feminine]
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
- Atomstadt
- Außenstadt
- Bundesstadt
- Darmstadt
- Grenzstadt
- Großstadt
- Hafenstadt
- Hansestadt
- Hauptstadt
- Innenstadt
- Kleinstadt
- Kreisstadt
- Oberstadt
- Schlafstadt
- stadtauswärts
- stadtbekannt
- Stadtbewohner
- Stadtbummel
- Stadtführung
- Stadtgebiet
- Stadtkreis
- Stadtleben
- Stadtluft
- Stadtmensch
- Stadtmitte
- Stadtpark
- Stadtplanung
- Stadtrand
- Stadtrat
- Stadtschule
- Stadtwappen
- Stadtzentrum
- Trabantenstadt
- Unterstadt
Further reading[edit]
- “Stadt” in Duden online
- “Stadt” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Stadt”, in , John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
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