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Polish
Etymology
From niwelować + -cja.[1] First attested in 1823.[2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɲi.vɛˈla.t͡sja/
- Rhymes: -at͡sja
- Syllabification: ni‧we‧la‧cja
Noun
niwelacja f
- (construction) leveling (process of leveling the surface of the ground)
- (surveying, archaeology) leveling (process of measuring levels to establish heights and altitude)
- (literary) leveling (act of getting rid of something useless)
- (literary) leveling (act of getting rid of differences, i.e. cultural differences)
Declension
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References
- ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “niwelacja”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
- ^ Johann Christoph Adelung (1823) Słownik niemiecko-polski = Deutsch-polnisches Wörterbuch (in Polish), page 27
Further reading
- niwelacja in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- niwelacja in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “niwelacja”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “niwelacja”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 395