olbrzymi

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Polish

Etymology

From olbrzym +‎ -i. First attested in 1638. Compare Kashubian òlbrzëmi, Masurian ôlbrżini, and Silesian ôlbrzimi.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɔlˈbʐɨ.mi/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ɔlˈbʐɨ.mi/, /ɔlˈbr̝ɨ.mi/
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  • Rhymes: -ɨmi
  • Syllabification: ol‧brzy‧mi

Adjective

olbrzymi (not generally comparable, comparative bardziej olbrzymi, superlative najbardziej olbrzymi, derived adverb olbrzymio)

  1. huge, gigantic (of very large physical proportions)
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:duży
  2. huge, gigantic (very high in number or amount)
  3. huge, gigantic (of high intensity)

Declension

Declension of olbrzymi (soft)
singular plural
masculine animate masculine inanimate feminine neuter virile (= masculine personal) non-virile
nominative olbrzymi olbrzymia olbrzymie olbrzymi olbrzymie
genitive olbrzymiego olbrzymiej olbrzymiego olbrzymich
dative olbrzymiemu olbrzymiej olbrzymiemu olbrzymim
accusative olbrzymiego olbrzymi olbrzymią olbrzymie olbrzymich olbrzymie
instrumental olbrzymim olbrzymią olbrzymim olbrzymimi
locative olbrzymim olbrzymiej olbrzymim olbrzymich

Derived terms

nouns

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), olbrzymi is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 27 times in scientific texts, 16 times in news, 13 times in essays, 17 times in fiction, and 2 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 75 times, making it the 859th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

References

  1. ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “olbrzym”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  2. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “olbrzymi”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  3. ^ Publius Ovidius Naso (1638) Walerian Otwinowski (Otfinowski), transl., Księgi Metamorphoseon to iest, Przemian, Od Pvblivsa Owidyvsza Nasona Wierszami opisane; A Przez Waleryana Otfinowskiego, Na Polskie przetłumaczone, y do Druku podane‎ (in Polish), page 14
  4. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “olbrzymi”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 331

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