jednostka

See also: jednostką

Polish

Etymology

From jedność +‎ -ka.[1][2] First attested in 1801.[3]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /jɛdˈnɔs.tka/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔstka
  • Syllabification: jed‧nos‧tka

Noun

jednostka f (related adjective jednostkowy)

  1. (literary) individual, individuum, entity, body (person considered alone)
    Synonym: indywiduum
  2. (by extension) individual, individuum (single representative of a species)
    Synonym: osobnik
  3. unit (organized group comprising people in uniform who perform particular tasks)
    1. (military) unit (group of soldiers)
      Synonym: oddział
  4. unit (headquarters of such a group)
  5. (bureaucracy) unit (independent branch of a public institution established to conduct a specific type of activity)
  6. (military) unit (individual ship)
    Synonym: statek
  7. (metrology, sciences) unit (standard measure of a quantity)
  8. unit (the number one)
    Synonym: jedynka

Declension
Declension of jednostka
singular plural
nominative jednostka jednostki
genitive jednostki jednostek
dative jednostce jednostkom
accusative jednostkę jednostki
instrumental jednostką jednostkami
locative jednostce jednostkach
vocative jednostko jednostki

Derived terms
nouns
  • jednostka astronomiczna
  • jednostka centralna komputera
  • jednostka chorobowa
  • jednostka uczestnictwa
  • kult jednostki

Descendants
  • → Kashubian: jednostka
  • Masurian: jednostkä
  • → Silesian: jednostka

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), jednostka is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 33 times in scientific texts, 41 times in news, 33 times in essays, 4 times in fiction, and 6 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 117 times, making it the 516th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[4]

References
  1. Mańczak, Witold (2017) “jeden”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
  2. Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “jednostka”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  3. Fortuna, czyli odmiana szczęścia przez losy wierszem wypadaiąca. (in Polish), 1801, page 6
  4. Ida Kurcz (1990) “jednostka”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 164

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