placówka

See also: placówką and placówkä

Polish

Etymology

From plac +‎ -ówka. Ellipsis of straż placowa (“plaza guard”).[1] First attested in 1773.[2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /plaˈt͡suf.ka/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /plaˈt͡sof.ka/
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  • Rhymes: -ufka
  • Syllabification: pla‧ców‧ka

Noun

placówka f

  1. (diplomacy, trading) agency, branch, mission; foreign facility, foreign branch (diplomatic or commercial representative office of a country located in the territory of another country)
    Synonym: przedstawicielstwo
  2. center, facility, institution; agency
    Synonyms: instytucja, ośrodek
  3. (military) post (place guarded by a military)
  4. (military) outpost (stopping place of the branch that insures the military of a given country)

Declension
Declension of placówka
singular plural
nominative placówka placówki
genitive placówki placówek
dative placówce placówkom
accusative placówkę placówki
instrumental placówką placówkami
locative placówce placówkach
vocative placówko placówki

Descendants
  • → Masurian: placówkä

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), placówka is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 5 times in scientific texts, 31 times in news, 21 times in essays, 4 times in fiction, and 2 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 63 times, making it the 1042nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]

References
  1. Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “placówka”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. Publius Cornelius Tacitus (1773) Kaia Korneliusza Tacyta Dzieła wszystkie (in Polish), volume 2, page 33
  3. Ida Kurcz (1990) “placówka”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 371

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