Rzeczpospolita

For other uses, see Rzeczpospolita (disambiguation).

Rzeczpospolita (pronounced [ʐɛt͡ʂpɔsˈpɔlita] ⓘ) is a traditional Polish term for a political community founded for the common good. The noun "rzeczpospolita", meaning "public welfare, general good or advantage" rzecz "thing, matter" and pospolita "common", is analogous to the Latin rēs pūblica (rēs "thing" + pūblica "public, common"), i.e. republic, in English also rendered as commonwealth, for example, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The modern term in English is republic and refers to all modern republics, for instance the French Republic. In modern Polish, the word rzeczpospolita is used exclusively in relation to the Republic of Poland, while any other republic is referred to in Polish as a republika (e.g. Italian Republic – Republika Włoska).

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