międzynarodowy

Polish

Etymology

From między- + narodowy. Internationalism calque of various European languages; compare English international, French international, German international. First attested in 1859.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mjɛn.d͡zɨ.na.rɔˈdɔ.vɨ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔvɨ
  • Syllabification: mię‧dzy‧na‧ro‧do‧wy

Adjective

międzynarodowy (not comparable, derived adverb międzynarodowo)

  1. international (of or having to do with more than one nation)
    Synonym: internacjonalny
    1. international (common to, or affecting, two or more nations)
      Synonym: internacjonalny
    2. international (participated in by two or more nations)
      Synonym: internacjonalny
    3. international (serving two or more nations)
      Synonym: internacjonalny
    4. international (having branches in various countries)
      Synonym: internacjonalny
    5. international (between or among nations)
      Synonym: internacjonalny

Declension

Derived terms

nouns
noun

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), międzynarodowy is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 12 times in scientific texts, 63 times in news, 38 times in essays, 2 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 118 times, making it the 512th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References

  1. W. Maniecky, editor (1859), Dziennik Literacki. (Literarisches Tageblatt) (in Polish), Ossolinski, page 169
  2. Ida Kurcz (1990) “międzynarodowy”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 245

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