prawidłowy

Polish

Etymology

From prawidło + -owy. First attested in 1803.[1] Compare Kashubian prawidłowi.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pra.vidˈwɔ.vɨ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔvɨ
  • Syllabification: pra‧wid‧ło‧wy

Adjective

prawidłowy (comparative bardziej prawidłowy, superlative najbardziej prawidłowy, derived adverb prawidłowo)

  1. correct, right (as ought to be)
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:dobry

Declension

Derived terms

nouns
  • ostrosłup prawidłowy

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), prawidłowy is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 17 times in scientific texts, 7 times in news, 44 times in essays, 0 times in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 69 times, making it the 933rd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References

  1. Ignacy Krasicki (1803) Dzieła Ignacego Krasickiego (in Polish), volume 3, Dzieła poetyckie, page 21
  2. Ida Kurcz (1990) “prawidłowy”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 431

Further reading

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