delegacja

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See also: delegacją

Polish

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Etymology

Internationalism; possibly borrowed from German Delegation or French délégation, ultimately from Latin dēlēgātiō.[1][2][3] By surface analysis, delegować +‎ -cja. Sense 6 is a semantic loan from English delegation. First attested in 1743.[4] Compare Kashubian delegacjô and Silesian delegacyjŏ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɛ.lɛˈɡa.t͡sja/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -at͡sja
  • Syllabification: de‧le‧ga‧cja

Noun

delegacja f (diminutive delegacyjka, related adjective delegacyjny)

  1. delegation (group of delegates used to discuss issues)
    Synonyms: deputacja, przedstawicielstwo
  2. business trip
  3. business trip confirmation (certificate confirming the employee's trip for business purposes)
  4. (colloquial) business trip money (specified amount of money that an employee is entitled to in exchange for the costs of a business trip)
  5. (law) deputation (transfer of all or part of powers to an authority) ,
  7. (computing) delegation (method-dispatching technique describing the lookup and inheritance rules for self-referential calls)

Declension

Declension of delegacja
singular plural
nominative delegacja delegacje
genitive delegacji delegacji/delegacyj (archaic)
dative delegacji delegacjom
accusative delegację delegacje
instrumental delegacją delegacjami
locative delegacji delegacjach
vocative delegacjo delegacje
adjective
nouns
verbs

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), delegacja is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 3 times in scientific texts, 104 times in news, 5 times in essays, 5 times in fiction, and 0 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 117 times, making it the 515th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[5]

References

  1. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “delegacja”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “delegacja”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
  3. ^ Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “delegacja”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
  4. ^ Kuryer Polski (in Polish), number 343, 1743, page 1
  5. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “delegacja”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 72

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