Holomouc

Czech

Etymology

From Olomouc. The first evidence of prothetic h in the name of the city can be found in the Latin expression holomucensis, a Latin version of the Czech adjective olomoucký, holomoucký (“of Olomouc”), on a seal from 1208.[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈholomou̯t͡s/
Hyphenation: Ho‧lo‧mouc

Proper noun

Holomouc

Obsolete form of Olomouc. (City in Moravia, nowadays in the Czech Republic.)
- 1846, Josef Kajetán Tyl, Tataři u Holomouce‎:
  „To hoří Přerov!“ zaznělo po celé Holomouci, a všecka srdce naplnila se úzkostí.
  "Přerov is burning!" could be heard all around Olomouc, and all the hearts were filled with anxiety.
- 1844, Matěj Mikšíček, editor, Sbjrka powěstí morawských a slezkých‎, volume 3, Brno: František Šastl, page 27:
  W tom čase, co dobýván Holomouc, pocjtilo wjc než půl země hrůzu přjtomnosti krutých Monġolů.
  In the time, when Olomouc was besieged, more than half of the country felt the terror from the presence of cruel Mongols.

Usage notes

The gender of the name Holomouc was not stabilized in the past and both feminine or masculine inanimate usage can be found. Originally the name of the city was masculine, but later it started to be used also as feminine and this usage prevailed especially in western part of the Czech lands (Bohemia). The form of the word itself is influenced by the gender only in instrumental case, but it influences the rest of the sentence more: compare masculine Holomouc byl and feminine Holomouc byla ("Olomouc was").

Declension

feminine

Declension of Holomouc

	singulare tantum
nominative	Holomouc
genitive	Holomouce
dative	Holomouci
accusative	Holomouc
vocative	Holomouci
locative	Holomouci
instrumental	Holomoucí

masculine inanimate