stacja

See also: stacją

Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish stacyja.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsta.t͡sja/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -at͡sja
  • Syllabification: sta‧cja

Noun

stacja f (diminutive stacyjka, related adjective stacyjny, abbreviation st.)

  1. station (place of stopping for transportation)
  2. station (place used for broadcasting radio or television; the broadcasting entity itself)
  3. station (unit dealing with a particular activity)
  4. (Roman Catholicism) station (any of the Stations of the Cross)
  5. (obsolete, historical) obligation to provide room and board to one's ruler as they are travelling
  6. (obsolete, Christianity) station (church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers; act of halting to pray)
  7. (obsolete) station (fact of standing still; motionlessness, stasis)
  8. (obsolete) place where a post or mail horse is swapped out
  9. (obsolete) place where a land surveyor measures the land
  10. (obsolete) provisions; fodder
  11. (obsolete) place that serves a local region of a country
  12. (obsolete, historical) prehistoric settlement

Declension

Derived terms

nouns

Descendants

  • Kashubian: stacjô

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), stacja is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 18 times in scientific texts, 32 times in news, 6 times in essays, 19 times in fiction, and 6 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 81 times, making it the 795th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References

  1. Ida Kurcz (1990) “stacja”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 555

Further reading

  • stacja in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • stacja in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “stacyja”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “stacya”, in Słownik języka polskiego
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “stacja”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
  • J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1915), “stacja”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 6, Warsaw, page 377
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