Editing Pécs (section)

== Name ==
The earliest name for the territory was its [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] name of ''Sopianæ''. The name possibly comes from the plural of the Celtic ''sop'' meaning "marsh".{{cn|date=August 2024}}

The medieval city was first mentioned in 871 under the name {{lang|la|Quinque Basilicae}} ("five cathedrals".) The name refers to the fact that when constructing the churches of the city, the builders used material from five old Christian chapels. In later Latin documents the city was mentioned as ''Quinque Ecclesiae'' ("five churches", a name identical in meaning to the German name ''Fünfkirchen'' and the Slovak name {{lang|sk|Päťkostolie}}<ref name= ggl>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y3vnAAAAMAAJ&q=P%C3%A4%C5%A5kostolie |title=Slovenská reč: časopis pre výskum a kultúru slovenského jazyka |access-date=2013-03-12|year=1998 }}</ref>).

The name ''Pécs'' appears in documents in 1235 in the word ''Pechyut'' (with modern spelling: ''pécsi út'', meaning "road to/from Pécs") most likely derives from the [[Proto-Slavic language|Proto-Slavic]] ''*pęčь'' or from the [[Illyrian language|Illyrian]] ''*penče'', both meaning five.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kniezsa |first=István |year=1962 |editor-last=Beke |editor-first=Ödön |title=Pécs város neve |trans-title=The name of the city of Pécs |journal=[[Magyar Nyelvőr]] |pages=326–329}}</ref> In other languages: in [[Latin]], ''Quinque Ecclesiae''; in [[Italian language|Italian]], ''Cinquechiese''; in [[Croatian language|Croatian]], ''Pečuh''; in [[Serbian language|Serbian]], {{lang|sr|Печуј}} (''Pečuj''); in [[Slovak language|Slovak]], ''Päťkostolie''; in [[Czech language|Czech]], {{lang|cs|Pětikostelí}}; in [[Dutch language|Dutch]], {{lang|nl|Vijfkerken}}; in [[German language|German]], ''Fünfkirchen''; and in [[Turkish language|Turkish]], ''Peçuy''.