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Polish
Etymology
From całkowity + -ie. First attested in 1764.[1] Compare Kashubian całkòwice and Silesian cołkowicie.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -it͡ɕɛ
- Syllabification: cał‧ko‧wi‧cie
Adverb
całkowicie (not comparable)
- completely, entirely, totally, altogether (to the fullest extent or degree)
- Synonyms: bez reszty, do cna, do spodu, do szczętu, doszczętnie, kompletnie, na sto procent, zupełnie
- Antonym: częściowo
- (obsolete) rather, quite (to a large degree)
- Synonym: całkiem
- (obsolete) unscathedly
Particle
całkowicie
- something has all ascribable traits to the speaker's surprise; completely, totally
- Synonyms: całkiem, do reszty, zupełnie
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), całkowicie is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 29 times in scientific texts, 16 times in news, 23 times in essays, 9 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 80 times, making it the 801st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]
References
- ^ Kasper Balsam (1764) Kazania Przygodne W. X. Kaspra Balsama Soc: Jesu. T. 1 , O cnotach: wiary, nadziei, miłosci, y obowiązkach z nich wynikających (in Polish), page 24
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “całkowicie”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 41
Further reading
- całkowicie in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- całkowicie in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “całkowicie”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “całkowicie”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “całkowicie”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 253