przestrzeń

Polish

Etymology

Uncertain. First attested in 1585.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpʂɛ.stʂɛɲ/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈpʂɛs.tʂɛɲ/, /ˈpr̝ɛs.tr̝ɛɲ/
  • (file)
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛstʂɛɲ
  • Syllabification: prze‧strzeń

Noun

przestrzeń f

  1. (countable) space (area as a whole along with the objects within)
  2. (uncountable) space (area between two objects) [+ między (instrumental) = between what]
  3. (countable) space (all activities of a particular kind, often associated with a particular area)
    Synonym: dziedzina
  4. (countable) space (unlimited physical extent)
    Synonyms: przestworze, przestwór
  5. (countable) expanse (vast, open area)
  6. (countable, mathematics) space (generalized construct or set whose members have some property in common)

Declension

Derived terms

adjectives
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Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), przestrzeń is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 40 times in scientific texts, 17 times in news, 6 times in essays, 10 times in fiction, and 2 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 75 times, making it the 862nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[5]

References

  1. Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “przestrzeń”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  2. Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “przestrzeń”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  3. Mańczak, Witold (2017) “przestrzeń”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
  4. Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “przestrzeń”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  5. Ida Kurcz (1990) “przestrzeń”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 458

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