pochylnia
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Polish
Etymology
From pochyły (“tilted”) + -nia. Sense 1.1 is a semantic loan from Low German Hellinge, from hellen (“to tilt, to hield”) (→ German Helling).
Pronunciation
Noun
pochylnia f
- slide, chute, planum inclinatum
- 1788, Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Fizyka, Kraków: Drukarnia Szkoły Głownéy Koronnéy, page 83:
- Silą tém większa, im większy iest ten kąt, przez którén Pochylnia od powiérzchni pozioméy odstępuje.
- The greater the angle in which the plane steps off the horizontal surface, the greater the power.
Declension
Declension of pochylnia
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | pochylnia | pochylnie |
| genitive | pochylni | pochylni |
| dative | pochylni | pochylniom |
| accusative | pochylnię | pochylnie |
| instrumental | pochylnią | pochylniami |
| locative | pochylni | pochylniach |
| vocative | pochylnio | pochylnie |
Further reading
- pochylnia in Polish dictionaries at PWN