Kuopio

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Finnish Kuopio. === Proper noun === Kuopio A city and municipality of the Northern Savonia region, in eastern Finland. ==== Translations ==== == Finnish == === Etymology === From a medieval Karelian spoken form of the Russian given name Прокопий (Prokopij), originally as an anthroponym. The town could have been named after this through a family name by early settlers, or used by the owners of hunting grounds once located in the same region. First attested in 1549 as Coopianiemi (modern spelling Kuopionniemi, the original name of the peninsula that the city was founded on). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈkuo̯pio/, [ˈkuo̞̯pio̞] Rhymes: -uopio Syllabification(key): Kuo‧pi‧o Hyphenation(key): Kuo‧pio === Proper noun === Kuopio Kuopio (a city and municipality of the Northern Savonia region, in eastern Finland) a Finnish surname ==== Usage notes ==== The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Kuopio" is Kuopiossa. ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → English: Kuopio → German: Kuopio → Japanese: クオピオ → Swedish: Kuopio ==== Statistics ==== The surname Kuopio belongs to 88 individuals, according to August 2025 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland. === References === == Japanese == === Romanization === Kuopio Rōmaji transcription of クオピオ == Polish == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from Finnish Kuopio. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kuˈɔ.pjɔ/ Rhymes: -ɔpjɔ Syllabification: Ku‧o‧pio === Proper noun === Kuopio n (indeclinable) Kuopio (a city and municipality of Northern Savonia, Finland) === Further reading === “Kuopio”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[1] (in Polish) Kuopio in PWN's encyclopedia