oficer

Albanian

Noun

oficer

  1. officer
  2. (chess) bishop

Middle English

Noun

oficer

  1. Alternative form of officer

Polish

Alternative forms
  • oficyjer

Etymology

Borrowed from German Offizier.[1][2][3] First attested in 1656–1688.[4] Compare Kashubian oficéra, Silesian ôficyr, and Slovincian ofcéra.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɔˈfi.t͡sɛr/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ɔˈfi.t͡sɛr/, /ɔˈfi.t͡ser/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -it͡sɛr
  • Syllabification: o‧fi‧cer

Noun

oficer m pers (female equivalent oficerka, diminutive oficerek, related adjective oficerski)

  1. officer (person occupying a position from second lieutenant to marshal or an analogous positions in the uniformed services)
  2. (Middle Polish, collective) officers

Declension
Declension of oficer
singular plural
nominative oficer oficerzy/oficerowie/oficery (deprecative)
genitive oficera oficerów
dative oficerowi oficerom
accusative oficera oficerów
instrumental oficerem oficerami
locative oficerze oficerach
vocative oficerze oficerzy/oficerowie

Derived terms
nouns
  • młodszy oficer
  • oficer flagowy

Descendants
  • → Masurian: oficer

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), oficer is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 5 times in scientific texts, 15 times in news, 4 times in essays, 23 times in fiction, and 10 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 58 times, making it the 1111th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[5]

Noun

oficer m inan

  1. (obsolete, chiefly in the plural, rare) officer's boot

Declension
Declension of oficer
singular plural
nominative oficer oficery
genitive oficeru oficerów
dative oficerowi oficerom
accusative oficer oficery
instrumental oficerem oficerami
locative oficerze oficerach
vocative oficerze oficery

References
  1. Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “oficer”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “oficer”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
  3. Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “oficer”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
  4. “OFICER”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 30.01.2020
  5. Ida Kurcz (1990) “oficer”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 324

Further reading

Masurian

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish oficer.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ɔˈfit͡sɛr]
  • Syllabification: o‧fi‧cer

Noun

oficer m pers

  1. officer (person occupying a position from second lieutenant to marshal or an analogous positions in the uniformed services)

Further reading
  • Zofia Stamirowska (1987-2024) “oficer”, in Anna Basara, editor, Słownik gwar Ostródzkiego, Warmii i Mazur‎, volume 4, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, →ISBN, page 119
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