chemiczny

Polish

Alternative forms

  • chimiczny, chymiczny (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from German chemisch + -ny.[1] By surface analysis, chemia + -iczny. First attested in 1743–1745.[2] Compare Kashubian chemiczny and Silesian chymiczny.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /xɛˈmit͡ʂ.nɨ/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /xɛˈmit͡ʂ.nɨ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -it͡ʂnɨ
  • Syllabification: che‧micz‧ny

Adjective

chemiczny (comparative bardziej chemiczny, superlative najbardziej chemiczny, derived adverb chemicznie, abbreviation chem.)

  1. (relational, not comparable) chemical (of or pertaining to chemistry)
  2. chemical (of or relating to a material or processes not commonly found in nature or in a particular product)
    Synonym: sztuczny

Declension

nouns

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), chemiczny is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 64 times in scientific texts, 17 times in news, 17 times in essays, 1 time in fiction, and 0 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 99 times, making it the 632nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]

References

  1. Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “chemiczny”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. CHEMICZNY”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 25.01.2009
  3. Ida Kurcz (1990) “chemiczny”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 45

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