prezydium

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Polish[edit]

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Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from German Präsidium.[1][2] First attested in 1661.[3]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /prɛˈzɨ.djum/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɨdjum
  • Syllabification: pre‧zy‧dium

Noun[edit]

prezydium n (related adjective prezydialny, abbreviation prez.)

  1. (politics) presidium (multi-person elected management body of a larger collegial body)
  2. committee (group of people chosen to direct the proceedings of some official meeting)
  3. (obsolete) guard, watch (protective body)
  4. (obsolete) defensive castle

Declension[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Kashubian: prezydium

Trivia[edit]

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), prezydium is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 0 times in scientific texts, 70 times in news, 67 times in essays, 1 time in fiction, and 6 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 144 times, making it the 407th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “prezydium”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
  2. ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “prezydium”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
  3. ^ Merkuriusz polski ordynaryjny[2] (in Polish), 1661, page 86
  4. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “prezydium”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[3] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 488

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