polityczny

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Polish

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): /pɔ.liˈtɘt͡ʂ.nɘ/
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  • Rhymes: -ɘt͡ʂnɘ
  • Syllabification: po‧li‧tycz‧ny

Etymology 1

Adapted borrowing of French politique +‎ -ny.[1][2] First attested in 1666.[3][4] Displaced Middle Polish politycki. Compare Silesian polityczny and Kashubian pòliticzny.

Adjective

polityczny (not generally comparable, comparative bardziej polityczny, superlative najbardziej polityczny, derived adverb politycznie)

  1. (relational, not comparable) political (of or relating to politics)
  2. (archaic, literary) politic, prudent, tactful, classy (agreeing with norms and customs that avoid conflict)
    Synonym: taktowny
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Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), polityczny is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 28 times in scientific texts, 68 times in news, 95 times in essays, 9 times in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 201 times, making it the 272nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[5]

Etymology 2

Ellipsis of więzień polityczny.

Noun

polityczny m pers (female equivalent polityczna)

  1. (nominalized, colloquial, politics) political prisoner (person imprisoned for their political views or political activism)
    Synonym: więzień polityczny
Declension

References

  1. ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “polityczny”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
  2. ^ Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “polityczny”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
  3. ^ Paweł Kupiszewski (26.03.2019) “POLITYCZNY”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
  4. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “polityczny”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  5. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “polityczny”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 397

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