poziom

Polish

Alternative forms
  • poziem (obsolete)

Etymology

Back-formation from poziemny.[1] Semantic loan from English level. First attested in 1754–1765.[2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈpɔ.ʑɔm/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈpɔ.ʑɔm/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔʑɔm
  • Syllabification: po‧ziom

Noun

poziom m inan

  1. level (distance relative to a given reference elevation)
    Synonym: wysokość
  2. level (direction parallel to the ground)
  3. level (decreasing or increasing amount of something)
    Synonym: stopień
  4. level (degree of development of something, some type of activity)
  5. level (someone's level of education, culture, morality)
    Synonym: stopień
  6. level (quality of something)
    Synonym: jakość
  7. level (aspect of something)
    Near-synonym: aspekt
  8. (video games) level (one of several discrete segments of a game)
  9. (architecture) level, floor
    Synonym: piętro
  10. (obsolete, geology) layer (layer of sedimentary rock having approximately the same composition throughout)
    Synonym: warstwa

Declension
Declension of poziom
singular plural
nominative poziom poziomy
genitive poziomu poziomów
dative poziomowi poziomom
accusative poziom poziomy
instrumental poziomem poziomami
locative poziomie poziomach
vocative poziomie poziomy

Derived terms
adjectives
adverbs
  • na poziomie
nouns
verbs
  • poziomować impf
adjectives
  • poziomicowy
nouns
adverbs

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), poziom is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 32 times in scientific texts, 17 times in news, 70 times in essays, 9 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 131 times, making it the 461st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]

References
  1. Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “poziom”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. “POZIOM”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 13.07.2020
  3. Ida Kurcz (1990) “poziom”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 424

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