odcinek

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See also: ôdcinek

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odcinek

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish otcinek. By surface analysis, odcinać +‎ -ek. Compare Kashubian òdcynk.

Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -inɛk
  • Syllabification: od‧ci‧nek

Noun

odcinek m inan (diminutive odcineczek, related adjective odcinkowy)

  1. stretch, section, length, segment (part of something that is long; a physical piece of something; series of events seen as a length)
  2. episode, part (installment of a story or work, e.g. a television show, serial book or magazine, or radio program)
  3. section; slip (separate part of a document usually confirming a transaction)
  4. (military) section (place of combat operations)
  5. (geometry) segment (straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them; a line segment.)
  6. job description; segment, part (tasks set before someone as part of their professional competences; separate part of an activity)
  7. segment, cleft, clove (that which was pulled off or cut off from something)
    1. (Middle Polish, horticulture) graft (part subtracted from the mother plant intended for reproduction)
  8. (obsolete, orthography) apostrophe (text character ’)
    Synonym: apostrof
  9. (obsolete, orthography) comma (punctuation mark ,)
    Synonym: przecinek
  10. (obsolete, in the plural) covered bonds
    Synonym: listy zastawne

Declension

Declension of odcinek
singular plural
nominative odcinek odcinki
genitive odcinka odcinków
dative odcinkowi odcinkom
accusative odcinek odcinki
instrumental odcinkiem odcinkami
locative odcinku odcinkach
vocative odcinku odcinki

Derived terms

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Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), odcinek is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 31 times in scientific texts, 6 times in news, 28 times in essays, 0 times in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 66 times, making it the 990th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “odcinek”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 311

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