What's in a Prague street name

Rovnoběžná was named in 1952.

‘Rovnoběžná’ is the feminine version of ‘rovnoběžný’, which translates as ‘parallel’.

And, because everything is about Družstevní ochoz (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/03/28/prague-4-day-60-druzstevni-ochoz/) round here, this street is parallel to that one.

Such is the importance of The Ochoz that the two addresses on Rovnoběžná, located between Družstevní ochoz 30 and 36, are numbered 32 and 34.

Other words for ‘ovnoběžný’ include ‘souběžný’ (which can also be translated as ‘concurrent’ or ‘simultaneous’) and the more obvious ‘paralelní’.

Something that is the opposite of parallel would be ‘různoběžný’, or convergent.