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

Descendants

  • Czech: místo

References

Old Polish

Pronunciation

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

  1. location
  2. place

Declension

Declension of miesto
(pattern mesto)
singularplural
nominativemiestomiesta
genitivemiestamiest
dativemiestumiestam
accusativemiestomiesta
locativemiestemiestach
instrumentalmiestommiestami

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, 2003–2025