kandydat

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin candidātus. First attested in 1579. Compare Silesian kandydat.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kanˈdɨ.dat/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /kanˈdɨ.dat/, /kɒnˈdɨ.dat/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɨdat
  • Syllabification: kan‧dy‧dat

Noun

kandydat m pers (female equivalent kandydatka, related adjective kandydacki)

  1. candidate (a person who is applying for a job) or
    Synonyms: aspirant, pretendent
  2. candidate (something or somebody that may be suitable)
    Synonym: materiał
  3. (obsolete) doctor (person who has been awarded the highest degree possible at a univeristy)
    Synonym: doktor
  4. (obsolete, Russian military) soldier who has the right to become a military official

Declension

Declension of kandydat
singular plural
nominative kandydat kandydaci/kandydaty (deprecative)
genitive kandydata kandydatów
dative kandydatowi kandydatom
accusative kandydata kandydatów
instrumental kandydatem kandydatami
locative kandydacie kandydatach
vocative kandydacie kandydaci

Derived terms

nouns
verbs

Descendants

  • → Kashubian: kandidat
  • → Russian: кандида́т (kandidát)

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), kandydat is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 2 times in scientific texts, 28 times in news, 27 times in essays, 4 times in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 62 times, making it the 1051st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

References

  1. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “kandydat”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. ^ Sławski, Franciszek (1958-1965) “kandydat”, in Jan Safarewicz, Andrzej Siudut, editors, Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), Kraków: Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego
  3. ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “kandydat”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
  4. ^ Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “kandydat”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
  5. ^ Krystyna Długosz-Kurczabowa (2021) Wielki słownik etymologiczno-historyczny języka polskiego, →ISBN
  6. ^ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “kandydat”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
  7. ^ Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “kandydat”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna
  8. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “kandydat”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  9. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “kandydat”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 170

Further reading

Silesian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from German Kandidat. Compare Polish kandydat.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kanˈdɨdat/
  • Rhymes: -ɨdat
  • Syllabification: kan‧dy‧dat

Noun

kandydat m pers (female equivalent kandydatka)

  1. candidate (a person who is applying for a job)

Related terms

nouns

Further reading

  • kandydat in dykcjonorz.eu
  • kandydat in silling.org
  • Henryk Jaroszewicz (2022) “kandydat”, in Zasady pisowni języka śląskiego (in Polish), Siedlce: Wydawnictwo Naukowe IKRBL, page 86
  • Aleksandra Wencel (2023) “kandidat”, in Dykcjůnôrz ślų̊sko-polski‎, page 298
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