sportowy
Polish
Etymology
From sport + -owy. First attested in 1855.[1] Compare Kashubian spòrtowi and Silesian szportowy.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spɔrˈtɔ.vɨ/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɔvɨ
- Syllabification: spor‧to‧wy
Adjective
sportowy (not comparable, derived adverb sportowo)
- (relational) sport
- Synonym: atletyczny
- (of clothes) sport, sporting, athletic, sporty (having a simple cut, comfortable and therefore suitable for everyday wear, but not suitable for formal occasions)
- Synonym: wizytowy
- (of a car) sport (low, developing high speed, usually designed for two people)
- sporting (consistent with the principles of fair competition)
Declension
Declension of sportowy (hard)
| singular | plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine animate | masculine inanimate | feminine | neuter | virile (= masculine personal) | non-virile | |
| nominative | sportowy | sportowa | sportowe | sportowi | sportowe | |
| genitive | sportowego | sportowej | sportowego | sportowych | ||
| dative | sportowemu | sportowej | sportowemu | sportowym | ||
| accusative | sportowego | sportowy | sportową | sportowe | sportowych | sportowe |
| instrumental | sportowym | sportową | sportowym | sportowymi | ||
| locative | sportowym | sportowej | sportowym | sportowych | ||
Derived terms
adverbs
- po sportowemu
nouns
- gimnastyka sportowa
- karabinek sportowy
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), sportowy is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 5 times in scientific texts, 41 times in news, 8 times in essays, 5 times in fiction, and 2 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 61 times, making it the 1076th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]
References
Further reading
- sportowy in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- sportowy in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1915), “sportowy”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 6, Warsaw, page 319
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