Leipzig

Leipzig

English

Alternative forms

• Leipsic, Leipzic (obsolete)

Etymology

From German Leipzig.

Pronunciation

• (Anglicised) IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪp.sɪɡ/,[1][2][3][4][5] /ˈlaɪp.sɪk/,[2][4][5], /ˈlaɪp.zɪɡ/ (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?)

  • Audio (Southern England)

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• (as German) /ˈlaɪp.tsɪk/[5]

Proper noun

Leipzig

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

Derived terms

• Leipziger

Translations

city in Saxony, Germany

Armenian: Լայպցիգ (hy) (Laypcʿig) Belarusian: Ле́йпцыг m (Ljéjpcyh) Chinese: Mandarin: 萊比錫／莱比锡 (zh) (Láibǐxī) Corsican: Lipsia Czech: Lipsko (cs) n Dutch: Leipzig (nl) Esperanto: Lepsiko Finnish: Leipzig (fi) French: Leipzig (fr) m German: Leipzig (de) n Greek: Λειψία (el) f (Leipsía), Λιψία (el) f (Lipsía) Hungarian: Lipcse (hu) Italian: Lipsia (it) Japanese: ライプツィヒ (Raiputsihi) Latin: Lipsia Latvian: Leipciga Lithuanian: Leipcigas Macedonian: Лајпциг m (Lajpcig) Norwegian: Leipzig Polish: Lipsk (pl) m Portuguese: Leipzig, Lípsia Romanian: Lipsca Russian: Ле́йпциг (ru) m (Léjpcig) Sicilian: Lipsia f Slovak: Lipsko n Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: Lipsk m Upper Sorbian: Lipsk m Swedish: Leipzig (sv) Turkish: Leipzig Ukrainian: Ле́йпциг m (Léjpcyh)

References

1. “Leipzig”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
2. “Leipzig”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
3. “Leipzig”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
4. “Leipzig”, in Collins English Dictionary.
5. “Leipzig”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

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Proper noun

Leipzig m

1. Leipzig

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German

Etymology

From a Slavic name like "Lipsk", meaning "place of linden trees"; compare 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.

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪptsɪç/

• Audio (standard)

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• (southern) IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪptsɪk/

• Audio (southern)

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Proper noun

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]‎:

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

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

Descendants

• English: Leipzig
• Portuguese: Leipzig

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Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Leipzig.

Proper noun

Leipzig

1. Leipzig (a city in Saxony, Germany)

   Synonym: Lípsia