bezpieczeństwo

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Etymology

From bezpieczny +‎ -stwo.[1][2][3] First attested in 1500–1547.[4] Compare Kashubian bezpieczeństwò and Silesian bezpieczyństwo.

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): /bɛs.pjɛˈt͡ʂɛɲ.stfɔ/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛɲstfɔ
  • Syllabification: bez‧pie‧czeń‧stwo

Noun

bezpieczeństwo n

  1. safety, security (condition of being safe)
  2. safety, security (feeling of being safe)
  3. (colloquial) security agency (government organization that ensures safety)
  4. (obsolete, medicine) immunity
    Synonym: odporność
  5. (Middle Polish) bravery
    Synonyms: śmiałość, odwaga
  6. (Middle Polish) certainty; reliability
  7. (Middle Polish) recklessness, carelessness
    Synonyms: lekkomyślność, niedbałość

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Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), bezpieczeństwo is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 10 times in scientific texts, 42 times in news, 28 times in essays, 2 times in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 83 times, making it the 765th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[5]

References

  1. ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “bezpieczny”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  2. ^ Mańczak, Witold (2017) “bezpieczny”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
  3. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “bezpieczny”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  4. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “bezpieczeństwo”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  5. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “bezpieczeństwo”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 22

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