ilość
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Polish
Etymology
From ile + -ość. Calque of Latin quantitās. First attested in 1532.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈi.lɔɕt͡ɕ/
- (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈi.lɔɕt͡ɕ/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ilɔɕt͡ɕ
- Syllabification: i‧lość
Noun
ilość f
- amount; quantity (total, aggregate or sum of material)
- Coordinate term: jakość
- (proscribed) number
- Synonym: liczba
Usage notes
Formally, liczba is prescribed for measuring countable nouns and ilość is prescribed for uncountable nouns, however people often use ilość for all nouns.
Declension
Declension of ilość
Derived terms
adjective
Related terms
adverb
Descendants
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), ilość is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 85 times in scientific texts, 30 times in news, 59 times in essays, 10 times in fiction, and 2 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 186 times, making it the 303rd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.
References
- ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “ile”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
- ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “ilość”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
- ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “ilość”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “ilość”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 149
Further reading
- ilość in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- ilość in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- “ILOŚĆ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 2018 May 28
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “ilość”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “ilość”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “ilość”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 78