wreszcie

Polish

Alternative forms
  • wreście (dialectal or proscribed)

Etymology

Univerbation of w +‎ reszcie.[1][2][3] First attested in 1713–1714.[4]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈvrɛʂ.t͡ɕɛ/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈvrɛʂ.t͡ɕɛ/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛʂt͡ɕɛ
  • Syllabification: wresz‧cie

Adverb

wreszcie (not comparable)

  1. expresses that something happened later than the speaker expected, usually with a negative connotation; at last, finally
    Synonyms: nareszcie, w końcu

Particle

wreszcie

  1. used to list the final thing in a list; and finally
    Synonyms: nareszcie, w końcu

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wreszcie is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 31 times in scientific texts, 12 times in news, 24 times in essays, 56 times in fiction, and 22 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 145 times, making it the 402nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[5]

References
  1. Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “wreszcie”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  2. Mańczak, Witold (2017) “wreszcie”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
  3. Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “reszta”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  4. Józef Gierowski, editor ((Can we date this quote?)), Rzeczpospolita w dobie upadku 1700-1740. Wybór źródeł (in Polish), published 1955, Przestroga generalna stanów Rzpltej…, page 201
  5. Ida Kurcz (1990) “wreszcie”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 679

Further reading
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