Neuter
Leipzig
Die Eisenbahnstraße in Leipzig
ist berüchtigt .
The railway road in Leipzig is notorious.
- (neuter, proper-noun) Leipzig (a city in Saxony, Germany)
- (neuter, proper-noun) a rural district of Saxony; seat: Borna
- (neuter, proper-noun) a hamlet in the Rural Municipality of Reford No. 379, Saskatchewan, Canada
- (neuter, proper-noun) Leyptsig (a village in the Varnensky District, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia)
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈlaɪpt͡sɪç/
Etymology
From a Slavic name like Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian Lipsk (literally “place of linden trees”); compare Upper Sorbian and 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.
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