napięcie
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Polish
Etymology
From napiąć + -ęcie. First attested in 1621.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
napięcie n (related adjective napięciowy)
- (uncountable) verbal noun of napiąć
- (countable) tension (psychological state of being tense)
- Synonyms: naprężenie, stres
- (countable) tension (conflictual situation)
- (uncountable, physics) tension (voltage)
- Synonym: woltaż
- (uncountable, physics, engineering) tension (state of an elastic object which is stretched in a way which increases its length)
- (uncountable, physics, engineering) tension (state of stress between the particles of a deformed elastic body due to the pressure force acting on them)
Declension
Declension of napięcie
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), napięcie is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 34 times in scientific texts, 12 times in news, 11 times in essays, 8 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 67 times, making it the 966th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]
References
- ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “napięcie”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “napięcie”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 269
Further reading
- napięcie in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- napięcie in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “napięcie”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “napięcie”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “napięcie”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “napięcie”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 121
- napięcie in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego