публіка

See also: публика

Belarusian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpublʲika]

Noun

пу́бліка • (públika) f inan (genitive пу́блікі, uncountable)

  1. audience, public

Declension

Ukrainian

Etymology 1

Derived via Western European languages from Latin pūblicus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpublʲikɐ]
  • (file)

Noun

пу́бліка • (públika) f inan (genitive пу́бліки, uncountable) (collective)

  1. audience (group of people seeing or hearing a performance)
  2. (colloquial) people, public
Declension

Etymology 2

Probably borrowed from Polish publika in the sense of 'scandal' or 'loose woman'/'public woman'[1] (in Kresy Wschodnie dialect).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [pʊˈblʲikɐ]

Noun

публі́ка • (publíka) f inan or m pers or f pers (genitive публі́ки, nominative plural публі́ки, genitive plural публі́к) (dialectal)

  1. (inanimate, uncountable) disgrace, shame
    Synonyms: (nondialectal) ганьба́ f (hanʹbá), (nondialectal) со́ром m (sórom)
  2. (personal, countable) disgrace, wanton (disgracefully behaved person)
Declension

(inanimate, uncountable)

(personal, countable)

References

  1. Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “публі́ка”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka

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