okres

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word okres. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word okres, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say okres in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word okres you have here. The definition of the word okres will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofokres, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
See also: ôkres

Czech

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia cs

Pronunciation

Noun

okres m inan

  1. district (administrative division)

Declension

Declension of okres (hard masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative okres okresy
genitive okresu okresů
dative okresu okresům
accusative okres okresy
vocative okrese okresy
locative okrese, okresu okresech
instrumental okresem okresy

Derived terms

See also

Further reading

  • okres in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • okres in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • okres in Internetová jazyková příručka

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Alternative forms

Etymology

Deverbal from okresić (modern określić). The word originally meant only confine but gained aditional meanings by translating period from various languages. First attested in 1564.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɔ.krɛs/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈɔ.krɛs/, /ˈɔ.kres/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔkrɛs
  • Syllabification: o‧kres

Noun

okres m inan

  1. period (a length of time)
    Synonyms: czas, długość, moment, period, pora
  2. period (a length of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era)
    Synonym: epoka
  3. period (the length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition of a wave or the rotation of a planet)
  4. period (each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity)
    Synonyms: półrocze, semestr
  5. (euphemistic) period (female menstruation; an episode of this)
    Synonyms: ciota, ciotka, menstruacja, miesiączka, period
  6. (rhetoric) period (a complete sentence, especially one expressing a single thought or making a balanced, rhythmic whole)
  7. (mathematics) period (the length of an interval over which a periodic function, periodic sequence or repeating decimal repeats; often the least such length)
    okres ułamka ― repetend
  8. (music) period (two phrases (an antecedent and a consequent phrase))
  9. (geology) period (a geochronologic unit of millions to tens of millions of years; a subdivision of an era, and subdivided into epochs)

Declension

Declension of okres
singular plural
nominative okres okresy
genitive okresu okresów
dative okresowi okresom
accusative okres okresy
instrumental okresem okresami
locative okresie okresach
vocative okresie okresy

Derived terms

adjective
adjective
nouns

Related terms

adverb

Descendants

  • → Masurian: ôkres (semantic loan)

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), okres is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 146 times in scientific texts, 69 times in news, 109 times in essays, 14 times in fiction, and 8 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 346 times, making it the 145th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

References

  1. ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “okres”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  2. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “okres”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  3. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “okres, okrys”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  4. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “okres”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 329

Further reading

Slovak

Slovak Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia sk

Pronunciation

Noun

okres

  1. district, region, county

Declension

Declension of okres
singular plural
nominative okres okresy
genitive okresu okresov
dative okresu okresom
accusative okres okresy
locative okrese okresoch
instrumental okresom okresmi

Derived terms

See also

References

  • “okres”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia