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Polish
Etymology
From dwudziestokąt + -ny. First attested in 1822.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dvu.d͡ʑɛs.tɔˈkɔnt.nɘ/
- Rhymes: -ɔntnɘ
- Syllabification: dwu‧dzies‧to‧kąt‧ny
Adjective
dwudziestokątny (not comparable, no derived adverb)
- (relational, architecture, geometry, rare) icosagonal, twenty-sided
- Kurjer Codzienny (in Polish), volume 18, number 95, 1882, page 4: “Od Ordynackiej stanie mianowicie dom z kolumnadą i pomieści restauracyą, bufety, i salony zabaw, cyrk zajmie środek placu a będzie dwudziestokątny z czterema fasadami. ― From Ordynacka street there's namely a house with a colonnade and it will house a restaurant, buffets, and playrooms, the circus will occupy the middle of the square and will be twenty-sided with four facades.”
- Gazeta Narodowa (in Polish), volume 52, number 119, 1912, page 1: “Na kwadratowej podstawie wznosi się jedna nad drugą 5 dwudziestokątnych teras, których ściany w całości pokryte płaskorzeźbami i bogatymi ornamentami. ― 5 twenty-sided terraces rise up on a square base one above the other, whose walls are entirely covered with bas-reliefs and rich ornamentations.”
Declension
Declension of dwudziestokątny (hard)
References
- ^ Florianus Bobrowski (1822) Lexicon latino-polonicum. Slownik lacinskopolski (in Polish), page 1213
Further reading
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “dwudziestokątny”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “dwudziestokątny”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 601
- dwudziestokątny in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego