prezydium

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Polish

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Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from German Präsidium.[1][2] First attested in 1661.[3]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /prɛˈzɘ.djum/
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  • Rhymes: -ɘdjum
  • Syllabification: pre‧zy‧dium

Noun

prezydium n (related adjective prezydialny, abbreviation prez.)

  1. (politics) presidium (multi-person elected management body of a larger collegial body)
  2. committee (group of people chosen to direct the proceedings of some official meeting)
  3. (obsolete) guard, watch (protective body)
  4. (obsolete) defensive castle

Declension

Declension of prezydium
singular plural
nominative prezydium prezydia
genitive prezydium prezydiów
dative prezydium prezydiom
accusative prezydium prezydia
instrumental prezydium prezydiami
locative prezydium prezydiach
vocative prezydium prezydia

Descendants

  • → Kashubian: prezydium

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), prezydium is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 0 times in scientific texts, 70 times in news, 67 times in essays, 1 time in fiction, and 6 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 144 times, making it the 407th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[4]

References

  1. ^ Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “prezydium”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego‎ (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
  2. ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “prezydium”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
  3. ^ Merkuriusz polski ordynaryjny‎ (in Polish), 1661, page 86
  4. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “prezydium”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 488

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