instytucja

See also: instytucją

Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Internationalism; possibly borrowed from French institution, German Institution, or English institution, ultimately from Latin īnstitūtiō.[1][2][3] First attested in 1556–1557.[4] Compare Silesian instytucyjŏ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /in.stɨˈtu.t͡sja/
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  • Rhymes: -ut͡sja
  • Syllabification: in‧sty‧tu‧cja

Noun

instytucja f (related adjective instytucjonalny)

  1. institution (a long established and respected organization, particularly one involved with education, public service, or charity work)
  2. (literary) institution (a custom or practice of a society or community)
  3. institution (the building or buildings which house such an organization)
  4. (obsolete) institution; appointment; installation
  5. (Middle Polish) learning
    Synonym: nauka
  6. (Middle Polish, education) education
    Synonym: wykształcenie
  7. (Middle Polish, religion) institution (ceremonial introduction to church office)

Declension

Derived terms

nouns
  • instytucja prawna
adverbs
  • instytucjonalnie
nouns
  • instytucjonalizacja
  • instytucjonalizm
  • instytucjonalność
verbs
  • instytucjonalizować impf, zinstytucjonalizować pf

Descendants

  • Kashubian: jinstitucjô

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), instytucja is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 9 times in scientific texts, 19 times in news, 28 times in essays, 2 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 61 times, making it the 1070th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[5]

References

  1. Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “instytucja”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “instytucja”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
  3. Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “instytucja”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
  4. Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “instytucyja”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  5. Ida Kurcz (1990) “instytucja”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 153

Further reading

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