komisja

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See also: komisją

Polish

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Alternative forms

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin commissiō.[1][2][3][4][5] First attested in 1543.[6] Doublet of komis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔˈmi.sja/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -isja
  • Syllabification: ko‧mi‧sja

Noun

komisja f (diminutive komisyjka, related adjective komisyjny)

  1. committee, commission, board, panel (body or group of people, officially tasked with carrying out a particular function)
  2. (colloquial) committee session
  3. (Middle Polish) commission, order, mandate, ordinance (written command to do something)

Declension

adverb
noun

Descendants

  • Kashubian: kòmisjô

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), komisja is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 12 times in scientific texts, 101 times in news, 121 times in essays, 8 times in fiction, and 7 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 249 times, making it the 209th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[7]

References

  1. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “komisja”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. ^ Sławski, Franciszek (1958-1965) “komisja”, 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) “komisja”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
  4. ^ Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “komisja”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
  5. ^ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “komisja”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
  6. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “kommissyja”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  7. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “komisja”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 186

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