Řepčín

Etymology
From personal name + possessive suffix, meaning "Řepka's property". The name Řepka comes from, which is a diminutive of.

Historical spelling of the name was very varied. The oldest written evidence is 🇨🇬 form Repsine in 1131, some other occurring variants were Reppsyn (1213), Rzepssinie (, 1532), Ržepschein (1676) or Řeptschein (1846). It is sometimes typical that names beginning with R or Ř received H as an initial consonant, which occurred with this name too, resulting in the forms like Hržebczin (1609) or Hřebčjn (1846), causing also a meaning shift towards otherwise unrelated word. That is why sometimes also derived the name from.

Řepčín belongs to the group of toponyms in the close surrounding of suffixed with  (most of which are nowadays parts of Olomouc), compare, , , , ,  or.

Proper noun

 * 1) a former village, nowadays a quarter of the city of Olomouc