zwierzę

See also: zwierze and źwierzę

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈzvjɛ.ʐɛ/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈzvjɛ.ʐɛ̃/, /ˈzvjɛ.r̝ɛ̃/, /ˈzvje.ʐɛ̃/, /ˈzvje.r̝ɛ̃/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛʐɛ
  • Syllabification: zwie‧rzę
  • Homophone: zwierze

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Polish źwierzę. By surface analysis, zwierz + .

Noun

zwierzę n (diminutive zwierzątko, related adjective zwierzęcy)

  1. animal (member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human)
  2. (biology) animal (eukaryote of the clade Animalia; a multicellular organism that is usually mobile, whose cells are not encased in a rigid cell wall (distinguishing it from plants and fungi) and which derives energy solely from the consumption of other organisms (distinguishing it from plants))
  3. (colloquial) beast (person who has a set of characteristics that make him or her function well in a particular environment)
    Synonym: zwierz
  4. (colloquial, derogatory) animal (person who behaves wildly)
Declension
Derived terms
nouns

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), zwierzę is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 66 times in scientific texts, 11 times in news, 3 times in essays, 8 times in fiction, and 14 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 102 times, making it the 621st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

zwierzę pf

  1. first-person singular future of zwierzyć

References

  1. Ida Kurcz (1990) “zwierzę”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 790

Further reading

  • zwierzę in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • zwierzę in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “zwierzę”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • ZWIERZĘ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 05.11.2016
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “zwierzę”, in Słownik języka polskiego
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “zwierzę”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
  • J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1927), “zwierzę”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 8, Warsaw, page 648
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