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Polish
Etymology
Internationalism; possibly borrowed from English adaptation, French adaptation, or German Adaptation,[1] ultimately from Medieval Latin adaptātiō, from Latin adaptō.[2] First attested in 1837.[3]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.dapˈta.t͡sja/
- Rhymes: -at͡sja
- Syllabification: a‧dap‧ta‧cja
Noun
adaptacja f
- (uncountable) adaptation (the process of adapting something or becoming adapted to a situation; adjustment, modification)
- Synonym: przystosowanie
- (countable) adaptation (a change that is made or undergone to suit a condition or environment)
- (countable, evolutionary theory) adaptation (an instance of an organism undergoing change, or the structure or behavior that is changed)
- Synonym: przystosowanie
- (uncountable) adaptation (the process of adapting an artistic work from a different medium)
- (countable, authorship) adaptation (an artistic work that has been adapted from a different medium)
- (sociology) adaptation (the means by which social groups adapt to different social and physical environments)
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Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), adaptacja is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 2 times in scientific texts, 0 times in news, 7 times in essays, 0 times in fiction, and 0 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 9 times, making it the 5147th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[4]
References
- ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “adaptacja”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
- ^ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “adaptacja”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
- ^ Gazeta Warszawska, number 12, 1837, page 1
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “adaptacja”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 1
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