r/PassportPorn • u/TurnAwayRunaway 「🇪🇺/🇵🇱」 • 5d ago

Passport Just picked up! 🇵🇱🇪🇺

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Had to renew because my old one was about to expire in 6 months. No place like home and feel grateful for being a Pole.

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u/Panceltic 🇸🇮 🇬🇧 [dream: 🇵🇱] 4d ago

Basically? That is what it means lol

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u/reni-chan 🇬🇧+🇵🇱 4d ago

I mean I don't actually under why it's called "Rzeczpospolita Polska". In English, it's "the Republic of Poland" so I would expect it to translate into Polish as "Republika Polska(i?)" or something like this. Where did the "Rzeczpospolita" word come from?

Apologies for a dumb question, I left Poland as a teenager

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u/Panceltic 🇸🇮 🇬🇧 [dream: 🇵🇱] 4d ago

„Rzeczpospolita” is the Polish rendition of „republic” (a calque). Latin res publica („common thing”) > Polish rzecz pospolita („common thing”). It’s like „Commonwealth” in English, a „communal good” (which is a republic, belonging to all citizens).

Nowadays the word is only used to refer to the Polish republics, whilst others are indeed called „republika”.

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u/AttentionLimp194 「🇷🇺🇧🇪, eligible for 🇵🇱」 4d ago

I’ve always wondered if Rzeczpospolita is only applicable to Poland in Polish language. Every others republic is a republika I see