oraz

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See also: ôráz

Polish

Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -ɔras
  • Syllabification: o‧raz

Etymology 1

Univerbation of o +‎ raz. Compare German zugleich and Silesian ôrŏz. First attested in 1590.

Adverb

oraz (not comparable)

  1. (Middle Polish) at the same time
    Synonyms: jednocześnie, zarazem

Etymology 2

Ellipsis of i oraz (and at the same time).

Conjunction

oraz

  1. and, as well as
    Synonym: i
    Antonym: ani

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), oraz is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 172 times in scientific texts, 376 times in news, 181 times in essays, 17 times in fiction, and 11 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 757 times, making it the 58th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “oraz”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  2. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “ORAZ 1”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego (in Polish)
  3. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “oraz”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku
  4. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “ORAZ 1”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego (in Polish)
  5. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “oraz”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 339

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