pozycja

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See also: pozycją

Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin positiō. First attested in the 16th century.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɔˈzɨt͡s.ja/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɨt͡sja
  • Syllabification: po‧zyc‧ja

Noun

pozycja f (related adjective pozycyjny, abbreviation poz.)

  1. position (manner of placing something; posture)
    Synonyms: postawa, poza
  2. position (place or location)
    Synonym: położenie
  3. position (status held in relation to other persons, countries, enterprises, things or phenomena)
    Synonyms: notowanie, ranga, status
  4. (proscribed) position (specific rank obtained in a given classification)
  5. position; item (object listed on a list)
    Synonym: miejsce
  6. work (artistic work of a particular type that is presented to the public at the same time together with other similar works)
  7. (team sports) position (place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player)
  8. (military) position (post; area prepared in a specific way in which a military unit defends itself)
    Synonym: stanowisko
  9. (literary, proscribed) position (opinion, stand or stance)
    Synonym: stanowisko
  10. (administration) position (specific job position held by a given person)
    Synonym: stanowisko
  11. (colloquial) position light
    Synonym: światło pozycyjne
  12. (chess) position (full state of a chess game at any given turn)

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Descendants

  • Silesian: pozycyjŏ

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), pozycja is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 18 times in scientific texts, 31 times in news, 37 times in essays, 13 times in fiction, and 4 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 103 times, making it the 607th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

References

  1. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “pozycja”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “pozycja”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
  3. ^ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “pozycja”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
  4. ^ Krystyna Długosz-Kurczabowa (2021) Wielki słownik etymologiczno-historyczny języka polskiego, →ISBN
  5. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “pozycja”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  6. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “pozycja”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 426

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