absolutny

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin absolūtus + -ny.[1][2] First attested in 1703.[3]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ap.sɔˈlut.nɨ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -utnɨ
  • Syllabification: ab‧so‧lut‧ny

Adjective

absolutny (not generally comparable, comparative bardziej absolutny or absolutniejszy, superlative najbardziej absolutny or najabsolutniejszy, derived adverb absolutnie)

  1. absolute (entire)
  2. absolute (unquestionable)
    Masz absolutną rację!You're absolutely right!
  3. absolute (being objective)
  4. (relational) absolute (based on absolutism)

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Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), absolutny is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 2 times in scientific texts, 0 times in news, 7 times in essays, 4 times in fiction, and 2 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 15 times, making it the 3554th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[4]

References

  1. Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “absolutny”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
  2. Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “absolutny”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
  3. Wiesław Morawski (27.06.2008) “ABSOLUTNY”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
  4. Ida Kurcz (1990) “absolutny”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego

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