środowisko

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Etymology

From środa +‎ -owisko. First attested in 1859.[1] Compare Kashubian strzodowiskò and Silesian strzodowisko.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɕrɔ.dɔˈvis.kɔ/
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  • Rhymes: -iskɔ
  • Syllabification: śro‧do‧wis‧ko

Noun

środowisko n (related adjective środowiskowy)

  1. environment; habitat (natural world or ecosystem; conditions suitable for an organism or population of organisms to live)
  2. environment (surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest)
  3. community, circle (people involved in such an item of interest)
  4. (sciences) environment (all the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs; especially chemical, physical, and biological)
    Synonym: ośrodek
  5. (computing) environment (set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process)
  6. (obsolete) center (central point)
    Synonyms: centrum, ośrodek

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Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), środowisko is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 25 times in scientific texts, 15 times in news, 35 times in essays, 1 time in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 81 times, making it the 796th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References

  1. ^ Michał Amszejewicz (1859) Dykcjonarz zawierający: wyrazy i wyrażenia z obcych języków polskiemu przyswojone, a mianowicie: w umiejętnościach, sztukach, tudzież w stylu prawniczym, administracyjnym, gazeciarskim, naukowo-filozoficznym, literackim i w potocznéj mowie używane (in Polish), Gins, page 302
  2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “środowisko”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 590

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