Utrecht

From Dutch Utrecht, from Middle Dutch and Old Dutch variants of ūt (“out, outside”) + Latin Trāiectum ad Rhēnum (“Crossing-on-the-Rhine”), the Roman fort at the location, from trāicere (“to cross, to send across”), from trāns- (“trans-: through, across”) + iacere (“to throw”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈjuˌtɹɛkt/, /ˈjuˌtɹɛxt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /juːˈtɹɛxt/

Utrecht

2. A city and municipality, the capital of Utrecht province, Netherlands.

   The Treaty of Utrecht (11 April 1713) recognized Anne as the rightful queen of England and yielded St Kitts and much of Canada to the English.

4. A province of the Netherlands.
   • 2012, Hans den Besten, edited by Ton van der Wouden, Roots of Afrikaans: Selected writings of Hans den Besten (series: Creole Language Library 44), John Benjamins Publishing Company: Amsterdam / Philadelphia, p. 81:

     E.g. muug 'tired' in the Utrecht dialect (Ponelis 1990: 36). Utrechtian, which does not delete intervocalic [χ/ɣ], belongs to the group of Hollandic dialects, which is the Dutch dialect group most closely related to Afrikaans.

• chutter

Borrowed from Dutch Utrecht.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [uˈtɾɛχt]

Utrecht m

1. Utrecht (a province of the Netherlands)
2. Utrecht (a city and municipality, the capital of Utrecht province, Netherlands)

• Utregt, Utert, Uitrecht, Uitregt, Uitert (obsolete)
• Utreg, Utrech (dialect spelling)

From Middle Dutch Utrecht, from Old Dutch [Term?], from Old Dutch ūt (“outside”) + Latin Traiectum, the name of the original Roman fort around which the city was built, a name meaning "crossing," from the verb traicio (“I go across, transfer”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈy.trɛxt/
• (Utrecht, Limburg) IPA^(key): /ˈy.trɛx/

• Audio (Northern):

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• Hyphenation: Utrecht

Utrecht n

1. Utrecht (a city and municipality, the capital of Utrecht province, Netherlands)

   Synonyms: Domstad (nickname), 030 (nickname), Utje (nickname), Leemput (Carnival nickname)

   Meronyms: Alendorp, Blauwkapel, De Meern, Haarzuilens, Lage Haar, Nedereindseweg, Ockhuizen, Oudenrijn, Rijnenburg, Stadsdam, Themaat, Veldhuizen, Vleuten

2. Utrecht (a province of the Netherlands)

   Meronyms: Amersfoort, Baarn, Bunnik, Bunschoten, De Bilt, De Ronde Venen, Eemnes, Houten, IJsselstein, Leusden, Lopik, Montfoort, Nieuwegein, Oudewater, Renswoude, Rhenen, Soest, Stichtse Vecht, Utrecht, Utrechtse Heuvelrug, Veenendaal, Vijfheerenlanden, Wijk bij Duurstede, Woerden, Woudenberg, Zeist

• → English: Utrecht velvet
• → French: velours d'Utrecht
• → Portuguese: Utreque
• → Chinese: 烏得勒支 / 乌得勒支 (Wūdélèzhī) (transliteration)

• Nedersticht
• Sticht

Borrowed from Dutch Utrecht.

• IPA^(key): /y.tʁɛkt/

Utrecht f

1. Utrecht (a province of the Netherlands)
2. Utrecht (a city and municipality, the capital of Utrecht province, Netherlands)

• Ütrecht (dated)

Borrowed from Dutch Utrecht.

• IPA^(key): /ˈyː.tʁɛçt/
• IPA^(key): /ˈuː.tʁɛçt/, /ˈʊt.ʁɛçt/ (spelling pronunciations, rare in educated speech)

• Audio:

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Utrecht n (proper noun, genitive Utrechts or (optionally with an article) Utrecht)

1. Utrecht (a province of the Netherlands)
2. Utrecht (a city and municipality, the capital of Utrecht province, Netherlands)

• Utrechter
  • Utrechterin
• utrechtisch
  • Utrechtisch

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Utrecht

1. Utrecht (a city in the modern Netherlands)
2. Utrecht (a bishopric)

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: Utrecht, Utregt, Utert, Uitrecht, Uitregt, Uitert (obsolete), Utreg, Utrech (dialect spelling)
  • → English: Utrecht velvet
  • → French: velours d'Utrecht
  • → Portuguese: Utreque
  • → Chinese: 烏得勒支 / 乌得勒支 (Wūdélèzhī) (transliteration)

• “Utrecht”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000

Borrowed from Dutch Utrecht.

• IPA^(key): /ˈu.trɛxt/
• Rhymes: -utrɛxt
• Syllabification: U‧trecht

Utrecht m inan

1. Utrecht (a province of the Netherlands)
2. Utrecht (a city and municipality, the capital of Utrecht province, Netherlands)

• Utrecht in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from Dutch Utrecht.

Utrecht ?

1. alternative form of Utreque:
   1. Utrecht (a province of the Netherlands)
   2. Utrecht (a city and municipality, the capital of Utrecht province, Netherlands)

Borrowed from Dutch Utrecht.

Utrecht m

1. Utrecht (a province of the Netherlands)
2. Utrecht (a city and municipality, the capital of Utrecht province, Netherlands)