Leipzig

• Leipsic, Leipzic (obsolete)

Borrowed from German Leipzig, from Slavic.

• (Anglicised) IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪp.sɪɡ/^{[1][2][3][4][5]}, /ˈlaɪp.sɪk/^[2][4][5]

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• (as German) /ˈlaɪp.tsɪk/^[5]
• Hyphenation: Leip‧zig

Leipzig

1. An independent city in Saxony, Germany.
2. The Leipzig Glossing Rules or glossing style, a style of glossing used by linguists.

Leipzig m

1. Leipzig

From a Slavic name like Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian Lipsk (literally “place of linden trees”); compare Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian lipa, from Proto-Slavic *lìpa, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *léiˀpāˀ. Early spellings of the name in Latin include Libzi, Lipzk and the standard Lipsia.

• (standard) IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪpt͡sɪç/

• Audio (standard):

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• (southern) IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪpt͡sɪk/

• Audio (Southern):

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• Hyphenation: Leip‧zig

Leipzig n (proper noun, genitive Leipzigs or (optionally with an article) Leipzig)

1. Leipzig (a city in Saxony, Germany)
   • 1808, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Auerbachs Keller in Leipzig”, in Faust: Der Tragödie erster Teil [Faust, Part One]‎^[1]:

     Wahrhaftig, du hast Recht! Mein Leipzig lob’ ich mir! / Es ist ein klein Paris, und bildet seine Leute.

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2. a rural district of Saxony; seat: Borna
3. a hamlet in the Rural Municipality of Reford No. 379, Saskatchewan, Canada
4. Leyptsig (a village in the Varnensky District, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia)

• → English: Leipzig
• → Portuguese: Leipzig

Unadapted borrowing from German Leipzig.

Leipzig f

1. alternative form of Lípsia