czerwoniec

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Etymology

From czerwony +‎ -iec. First attested in 1802.

Pronunciation

Noun

czerwoniec m animal or m inan

  1. (colloquial, historical, European history) Red złoty (gold coin with an international circulation)
    Synonym: czerwony złoty
  2. (historical) chervonets (any of several former currencies of Russia: applied to various foreign gold coins prior to the reign of Peter I of Russia, then to a Russian gold coin of 1701-1757, and finally to a 1922 currency of the Soviet Union)
  3. (historical) decade in a gulag (sentence of ten years of hard labor in Soviet labor camps)
  4. redshank (Ceratodon purpureus)

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Noun

czerwoniec m pers

  1. (colloquial, derogatory) red (communist)
    Synonyms: komunista, komuch

Declension

References

  1. ^ Halina Zgółkowa, editor (1994–2005), “czerwoniec”, in Praktyczny słownik współczesnej polszczyzny, volumes 1–50, Poznań: Wydawnictwo Kurpisz, →ISBN
  2. ^ Krzysztof Kluk (1802) Zwierząt domowych i dzikich osobliwie kraiowych, historyi naturalney początki i gospodarstwo, potrzebnych i pozytecznych domowych (in Polish), volume 4, O owadzie i robakach, page 129

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