numer

From Latin numerus.

numer m (plural numers)

1. number

From German Nummer, from Latin numerus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnumɛr/

numer m inan

1. number

• cysło (literary)

• numerěrowaś

• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “numer”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
• Lower Sorbian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Borrowed from Polish numer.

• IPA^(key): [ˈnumɛr]
• Syllabification: nu‧mer

numer m inan

1. number (indicating the position of something in a list or sequence)
2. edition; number (printed edition of a magazine)
3. (humorous) creep (person whose behavior often deviates from what is considered normal in a given community)

• Zofia Stamirowska (1987-2024) “numer, numera?”, in Anna Basara, editor, Słownik gwar Ostródzkiego, Warmii i Mazur‎, volume 4, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, →ISBN, pages 352-353

numer

1. Alternative form of nomer

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ms, *-mt are modified to ns, nt. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Borrowed from German Nummer.[1][2] First attested in 1772.[3]

• IPA^(key): /ˈnu.mɛr/
• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈnu.mɛr/

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• Rhymes: -umɛr
• Syllabification: nu‧mer

numer m inan (diminutive numerek, related adjective numerowy, abbreviation nr)

1. number (indicating the position of something in a list or sequence)
2. number (sequence of digits and letters used to register people, automobiles, and various other items)
3. number (anything marked in such a sequence)
   1. edition; number (printed edition of a magazine)

      Synonym: zeszyt

   2. licence plate number
   3. hotel room number
4. (colloquial) stunt, trick (action that is surprising in its unusualness or cleverness)
5. (derogatory) creep (person whose behavior often deviates from what is considered normal in a given community)

   Synonyms: aparat, model, numerant

6. (colloquial) quickie (sexual intercourse in a hurry and in a place not intended for this purpose, especially with a prostitute)
7. number (element of an artistic program, e.g. a show, concert)
8. size (measurement of clothes)

   Synonym: (more common) rozmiar

   numer butów ― shoe size

9. telephone number

   Synonym: numer telefonu

• → Masurian: numer

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), numer is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 6 times in scientific texts, 59 times in news, 21 times in essays, 20 times in fiction, and 14 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 120 times, making it the 503rd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[4]

• numer in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• numer in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “numer”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “numer”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎
• A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “numer”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎ (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 352