napięcie

Polish

Etymology

From napiąć +‎ -ęcie. First attested in 1621.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /naˈpjɛɲ.t͡ɕɛ/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /naˈpjɛ̃.t͡ɕɛ/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛɲt͡ɕɛ
  • Syllabification: na‧pię‧cie

Noun

napięcie n (related adjective napięciowy)

  1. (uncountable) verbal noun of napiąć
  2. (countable) tension (psychological state of being tense)
    Synonyms: naprężenie, stres
  3. (countable) tension (conflictual situation)
  4. (uncountable, physics) tension (voltage)
    Synonym: woltaż
  5. (uncountable, physics, engineering) tension (state of an elastic object which is stretched in a way which increases its length)
  6. (uncountable, physics, engineering) tension (state of stress between the particles of a deformed elastic body due to the pressure force acting on them)

Declension
Declension of napięcie
singular plural
nominative napięcie napięcia
genitive napięcia napięć
dative napięciu napięciom
accusative napięcie napięcia
instrumental napięciem napięciami
locative napięciu napięciach
vocative napięcie napięcia

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), napięcie is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 34 times in scientific texts, 12 times in news, 11 times in essays, 8 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 67 times, making it the 966th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References
  1. Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “napięcie”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. Ida Kurcz (1990) “napięcie”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 269

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