coraz

See also: coráz

Polish

Etymology

Univerbation of co +‎ raz.[1][2][3] First attested in 1603.[4]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡sɔ.ras/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈt͡sɔ.rɒs/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔras
  • Syllabification: co‧raz

Particle

coraz

  1. used with comparatives to show a growing rate of change; more and more, increasingly, ever
    Near-synonym: coraz to
    coraz częściej ― more and more often/ever more frequently/increasingly more often
    coraz lepiej ― better and better
  2. often; every now and then

Derived terms
particle

Descendants
  • → Kashubian: corôz
  • → Masurian: coráz
  • → Silesian: corŏz

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), coraz is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 45 times in scientific texts, 29 times in news, 54 times in essays, 45 times in fiction, and 20 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 193 times, making it the 288th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[5]

References
  1. Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “coraz”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  2. Mańczak, Witold (2017) “coraz”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
  3. Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “coraz”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  4. Krzysztof Dorohostajski (1603) HIPPICA TO IEST O KONIÁCH XIĘGI‎ (in Polish), page Hijv: “á ták po trzykroć coraz y tám y sám przybiegszy”
  5. Ida Kurcz (1990) “coraz”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 56

Further reading
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