rejon

See also: rejón

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin ratiō, ratiōnem.

Noun

rejon f (plural rejons)

  1. reason
  2. motive

Derived terms

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French rayon.[1][2][3][4] First attested in 1813.[5]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈrɛ.jɔn/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛjɔn
  • Syllabification: re‧jon

Noun

rejon m inan (related adjective rejonowy)

  1. area (place that is distinctive geographically, socially, economically or otherwise)
    1. area (people living in such a place)
  2. district (area designated administratively for the purposes of organizing and managing a specific activity)
    1. district (office managing such an area)
    2. district (people managing such an area)
  3. area (place that is part of something)
  4. (literary) area (sphere of interests)
    Synonym: sfera

Declension
Declension of rejon
singular plural
nominative rejon rejony
genitive rejonu rejonów
dative rejonowi rejonom
accusative rejon rejony
instrumental rejonem rejonami
locative rejonie rejonach
vocative rejonie rejony

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), rejon is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 12 times in scientific texts, 53 times in news, 29 times in essays, 3 times in fiction, and 0 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 97 times, making it the 650th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[6]

References
  1. Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “rejon”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “rejon”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
  3. Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “rejon”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
  4. Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “rejon”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
  5. Dziennik Departamentowy Krakowski (in Polish), number 64, 1813 September 2, page 621
  6. Ida Kurcz (1990) “rejon”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 488

Further reading

Venetian

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin regiō, regiōnem. Compare Italian regione

Noun

rejon f (plural rejoni)

  1. region
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