poziom
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Polish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Back-formation from poziemny. Semantic loan from English level. First attested in 1754–1765.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɔ.ʑɔm/
- (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈpɔ.ʑɔm/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɔʑɔm
- Syllabification: po‧ziom
Noun
poziom m inan
- level (distance relative to a given reference elevation)
- Synonym: wysokość
- level (direction parallel to the ground)
- level (decreasing or increasing amount of something)
- Synonym: stopień
- level (degree of development of something, some type of activity)
- level (someone's level of education, culture, morality)
- Synonym: stopień
- level (quality of something)
- Synonym: jakość
- level (aspect of something)
- Near-synonym: aspekt
- (video games) level (one of several discrete segments of a game)
- (architecture) level, floor
- Synonym: piętro
- (obsolete, geology) layer (layer of sedimentary rock having approximately the same composition throughout)
- Synonym: warstwa
Declension
Declension of poziom
Derived terms
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nouns
verbs
- poziomować impf
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Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), poziom is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 32 times in scientific texts, 17 times in news, 70 times in essays, 9 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 131 times, making it the 461st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.
References
- ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “poziom”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
- ^ “POZIOM”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 13.07.2020
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “poziom”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 424
Further reading
- poziom in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- poziom in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “poziom”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “poziom”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “poziom”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 912
- Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “poziom”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
- Mańczak, Witold (2017) “poziom”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN