# obec
## Czech
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech obec, from Proto-Slavic *obьťь.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈobɛt͡s]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

obec f
* municipality, village, locality, community

#### Derived terms

* obcovat
* občan
* občina
* obecenstvo
* obecní
* obecný

### Further reading

* “obec”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “obec”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “obec”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

## Old Czech
### Alternative forms

* obcě

### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *obьťь.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (13th CE) /ˈobɛt͡s/
* IPA: (15th CE) /ˈobɛt͡s/

### Noun

obec f
* community (society of people living together in a certain territory)
** community of the same religious faith, especially a Christian one
* common people, laity (as opposed to people)
* estate (layers of the population participating in power in a feudal state)
* municipal assembly (collective of people settled in the village and participating in its self-administration)
* Hussite military-power group (revolutionary attempt to create Hussite state power)
* (in translations of Latin) state, empire
* municipality (territorial district of the municipal)
* common property belonging to everyone

#### Descendants

* Czech: obec
* → Old Polish: obec
** Polish: obec

### References

* Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “obec”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

## Old Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Old Czech obec. Doublet of obiec, an inherited form. First attested in 1439.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (10th–15th CE) /ɔbɛt͡s/
* IPA: (15th CE) /ɔbɛt͡s/

### Noun

obec f
* (attested in Greater Poland) a vestigial institution of land law consisting in appointing in customary cases, e.g. when nobility is reprimanded, a group of witnesses with an unblemished reputation, long settled in a given area
    Synonym: obiec
** 1878-1889 [1439], Archiwum Komisji Historycznej‎, volume III, Greater Poland, page 343:Nobilis Andreas produxit... duos nobiles... post patrem, item produxit nobilem Petrum... et Martinum... post matrem, item produxit duos tercios... de communibus al. s obcze... Iurauerunt primi et sequentes..., quod... Andreas... est nobilis[Nobilis Andreas produxit... duos nobiles... post patrem, item produxit nobilem Petrum... et Martinum... post matrem, item produxit duos tercios... de communibus al. z obce... Iurauerunt primi et sequentes..., quod... Andreas... est nobilis]

#### Descendants

* Polish: obec

### References

* Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “obec”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
* B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “obec”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

## Old Slovak
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *obьťь.

### Noun

obec f
* a trade, labour, interest, religious or animal community, society
* the common people (the lower social classe)
* broader committee of town, village or guild self-government; elected board of directors
* territorial area of urban or village self-government
* a village (the smallest economic-administrative unit)
* empire, state
* common property (which belongs to all)
* the whole

#### Derived terms

* obecný

#### Related terms

* obecenstvo n

#### Descendants

* Slovak: obec

### References

* Majtán, Milan et al., editors (1991–2008), “obec”, in Historický slovník slovenského jazyka [Historical Dictionary of the Slovak Language] (in Slovak), volumes 1–7 (A – Ž), Bratislava: VEDA, →OCLC

## Polish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish obec. Displaced and doublet of obiec, an inherited form.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɔ.bɛt͡s/
* (Middle Polish) IPA: /ˈɔ.bɛt͡s/
* Rhymes: -ɔbɛt͡s
* Syllabification: o‧bec

### Noun

obec f
* (obsolete) community; group; gathering
    Synonym: (Middle Polish) obiec

#### Derived terms

* wobec

#### Related terms

* obecny
* obecnie
* obecność

### Further reading

* Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “obec, obiec”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
* Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “obec”, in Słownik języka polskiego
* Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “obec”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
* J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “obec”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 447

## Slovak
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Slovak obec.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɔbet͡s]

### Noun

obec f
* municipality

#### Derived terms

* obecný
* obecenstvo n

### Further reading

* “obec”, 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