Stadt

== German == === Etymology === From Middle High German stat, from Old High German stat, from Proto-West Germanic *stadi, from Proto-Germanic *stadiz, from Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂tis. Cognate with English stead. Doublet of Statt and Stätte. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ʃtat/ Homophone: statt Rhymes: -at === Noun === Stadt f (genitive Stadt, plural Städte, diminutive Städtchen n or Städtlein n) city (a large settlement) town (a settlement larger than a village) (metonymic) city center (a central business area of a city) (metonymic) city, town, town council, city council (a governing body of people elected to oversee management of a municipality) ==== Usage notes ==== For some speakers, the plural has an irregular lengthening of the stem vowel. See Städte. Not to be confused with Staat. ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === “Stadt” in Duden online “Stadt”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Stadt”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891