nemocnic

Nemocnic is a grammatical form rather than a standalone term. In Czech, the noun nemocnice means hospital, and nemocnic is the genitive plural form used when referring to “of hospitals” or “the hospitals.” In Slovak, nemocnica also means hospital, and nemocníc is the genitive plural; in unaccented form this can appear as nemocnic. The form is commonly encountered in official statistics, reports, and descriptive text.

Etymology and morphology follow from the root nemoc- meaning illness, with the usual noun suffixes that mark number and case in Czech and Slovak. As a declined form, nemocnic carries no separate meaning outside its syntactic function; it is not typically used as a proper noun.

Typical usage examples appear in sentences that describe quantities or characteristics of hospital networks. In Czech: Počet nemocnic v regionu vzrostl. In Slovak: Počet nemocníc vo regióne stúpol. In both languages, the form signals a reference to hospitals in the genitive case, often in phrases like “the number of hospitals” or “the network of hospitals.”

Notes on diacritics: diacritical marks distinguish the Slovak form nemocníc (with a diacritic on i) from the Czech form nemocnic. In non-diacritic text, both languages may render the form as nemocnic, depending on the transcription.

See also: nemocnice, nemocnica, nemocný, nemocnýčka.