powierzchnia

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See also: powierzchnią

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɔˈvjɛʂx.ɲa/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /pɔˈvjeʂ.xɲɒ/, /pɔˈvjer̝.xɲɒ/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛʂxɲa
  • Syllabification: po‧wierzch‧nia

Etymology 1

From powierzchni +‎ -a. First attested in 1612.

Noun

powierzchnia f (related adjective powierzchniowy, abbreviation pow.)

  1. surface (overside or up-side of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid)
  2. area, surface area (measure of the extent of a surface)
    Synonyms: przestrzeń, rozległość
  3. (literary) surface (outward or external appearance)
  4. surface (outside hull of a tangible object)
  5. (obsolete, mining) surface (top layer of earth above the mine; layer not underground)
  6. (obsolete) shallowness
    Synonym: powierzchowność
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Descendants
  • Kashubian: pòwierzchniô

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), powierzchnia is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 77 times in scientific texts, 25 times in news, 8 times in essays, 6 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 119 times, making it the 509th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

powierzchnia

  1. feminine nominative/vocative singular of powierzchni

References

  1. ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “powierzchnia”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  2. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “powierzchnia”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  3. ^ Paweł Kupiszewski (30.03.2020) “POWIERZCHNIA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
  4. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “powierzchnia”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 419

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