prezydent

See also: prezÿdént

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Präsident, from French président.[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈprɛ.zɨ.dɛnt/, /prɛˈzɨ.dɛnt/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /prɛˈzɨ.dent/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɨdɛnt
  • Syllabification: pre‧zy‧dent

Noun

prezydent m pers (abbreviation prez., feminine prezydent or prezydentka, related adjective prezydencki)

  1. president (leader of a country)
  2. mayor (highest rank of leadership for a city)
  3. president (chairman of a large, especially international, organization or concern)
    Synonym: prezes
  4. (obsolete) chief of police
  5. (obsolete, Christianity) head of a presidency

Declension

nouns

Descendants

  • Kashubian: prezydent
  • Masurian: prezÿdént, prezedént
  • Silesian: prezydynt

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), prezydent is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 4 times in scientific texts, 112 times in news, 22 times in essays, 4 times in fiction, and 0 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 142 times, making it the 419th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]

Noun

prezydent f (indeclinable, masculine prezydnt)

  1. female equivalent of prezydent (president) (leader of a country)
    Synonym: prezydentka
  2. female equivalent of prezydent (mayor) (highest rank of leadership for a city)
    Synonym: prezydentka
  3. female equivalent of prezydent (president) (chairman of a large, especially international, organization or concern)
    Synonym: prezydentka

References

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

Further reading

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