informacja

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See also: informacją

Polish

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin īnfōrmātiō. By surface analysis, informować +‎ -cja. First attested in 1585.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /in.fɔrˈmat͡s.ja/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -at͡sja
  • Syllabification: in‧for‧mac‧ja

Noun

informacja f (diminutive informacyjka, related adjective informacyjny)

  1. information (communicable knowledge)
    Synonym: wiadomość
  2. information (place where one can find information; i.e. part of an office)
  3. (information theory) information (any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit)
  4. (information technology) information (any ordered sequence of symbols or signals that could contain a message)

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Descendants

  • Kashubian: jinfòrmacjô
  • Silesian: informacyjŏ

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), informacja is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 25 times in scientific texts, 41 times in news, 16 times in essays, 16 times in fiction, and 2 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 100 times, making it the 629th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

References

  1. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “informacja”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “informacja”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
  3. ^ Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “informacja”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
  4. ^ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “informacja”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
  5. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “+informacyja”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  6. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “informacja”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 151

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