stanica

Inherited from Old Polish stanica. By surface analysis, stan +‎ -ica. Sense 3 is a semantic loan from Russian стани́ца (staníca).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /staˈɲi.t͡sa/

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• Rhymes: -it͡sa
• Syllabification: sta‧ni‧ca

stanica f

1. (tourism) riverside hostel
2. (archaic, military) border watchtower

   Hypernym: strażnica

4. (historical) stanitsa (Cossack village)

   Hypernym: osada

5. (historical, chiefly in the plural, paganism) ensign used by pagan Slavs

   Hypernym: chorągiew

• stanica in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• stanica in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “stan”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna

• IPA^(key): /stǎnit͡sa/
• Hyphenation: sta‧ni‧ca

stànica f (Cyrillic spelling ста̀ница)

1. station

   Synonym: postaja

2. (biology) cell

• stàničnī

• “stanica”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025