Plících

Plících is a historical and dialectal Czech form associated with the organ known today as the lung. In older Czech texts, plíc is the noun for the lung, and plících functions as its genitive plural form. The usage of plících appears primarily in historical medical writings and in regional dialects, rather than in contemporary standard Czech.

In modern Czech, the standard term for the organ is plíce, and the everyday language does not normally employ the form plících. The appearance of plících is thus largely confined to linguistics, philology, or quotations from older literature, where it reflects earlier morphological patterns in the language.

Etymologically, plících shares a common Slavic root with the modern word plíce, both tracing back to a root related to the organ itself. The shift from historical forms like plíc and plících to the modern plíce is part of the broader standardization of medical terminology in Czech during the 19th and 20th centuries.

See also: plíce, pľúca (Slovak for lungs). For readers seeking more on historical Czech anatomy vocabulary, consult dictionaries of historical language or medical terminology from Central European sources.