sekretarz

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French secrétaire.[1][2] First attested in the 16th century.[3] Compare Kashubian sekretôra.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /sɛkˈrɛ.taʂ/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /sɛˈkrɛ.tɒʂ/, /sɛˈkrɛ.tɒr̝/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛtaʂ
  • Syllabification: sek‧re‧tarz

Noun

sekretarz m pers (female equivalent sekretarka, related adjective sekretarski)

  1. secretary (male person keeping records and handling clerical work)
  2. secretary (person who keeps records, takes notes and handles general clerical work)
  3. secretary (person who deals with organizational and administrative matters of an institution or organization)
  4. secretary (managerial or leading position in certain non-profit organizations, such as political parties, trade unions, international organizations)
  5. secretary (person who holds the highest position in a political organization)
  6. the highest-ranking local government official, who is the deputy of the city president, mayor, commune head or starosta
  7. (historical) an official who ran the royal office in former Poland
    Synonym: regent
  8. in medieval Poland, an honorary title formerly given by the king to scholars and writers
  9. (politics) secretary (head of a department of the government of the United States of America)
  10. (obsolete) report editor for a council
  11. (Middle Polish) confidant; secretary (person with whom one can keep secrets)
    Synonym: powiernik

Declension
Declension of sekretarz
singular plural
nominative sekretarz sekretarze
genitive sekretarza sekretarzy
dative sekretarzowi sekretarzom
accusative sekretarza sekretarzy
instrumental sekretarzem sekretarzami
locative sekretarzu sekretarzach
vocative sekretarzu sekretarze

Derived terms
nouns
  • sekretarz stanu
verbs
  • sekretarzować impf

Noun

sekretarz m animal

  1. secretary bird (Sagittarius serpentarius)
    Synonym: wężojad
  2. (obsolete) a type of party game

Declension
Declension of sekretarz
singular plural
nominative sekretarz sekretarze
genitive sekretarza sekretarzy
dative sekretarzowi sekretarzom
accusative sekretarza sekretarze
instrumental sekretarzem sekretarzami
locative sekretarzu sekretarzach
vocative sekretarzu sekretarze

Noun

sekretarz m inan

  1. (obsolete) book of letter boilerplates

Declension
Declension of sekretarz
singular plural
nominative sekretarz sekretarze
genitive sekretarza sekretarzy
dative sekretarzowi sekretarzom
accusative sekretarza sekretarze
instrumental sekretarzem sekretarzami
locative sekretarzu sekretarzach
vocative sekretarzu sekretarze

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), sekretarz is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 2 times in scientific texts, 123 times in news, 22 times in essays, 5 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 155 times, making it the 371st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[4]

References
  1. Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “sekretarz”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
  2. Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “sekretarz”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
  3. Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “sekretarz”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  4. Ida Kurcz (1990) “sekretarz”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 523

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