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Polish
Etymology
From przedstawić + -ciel. Calque of French représentant and German Vertreter. First attested in 1820. Compare Czech představitel and Russian представи́тель (predstavítelʹ).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʂɛt.staˈvi.t͡ɕɛl/
- Rhymes: -it͡ɕɛl
- Syllabification: przed‧sta‧wi‧ciel
Noun
przedstawiciel m pers (female equivalent przedstawicielka, related adjective przedstawicielski)
- representative (one who represents someone or something)
- Synonym: reprezentant
- (law) agent; representative (person authorized under a power of attorney or statute to undertake legal actions on someone else's behalf)
- Hypernym: pełnomocnik
- representative (person who belongs to a specific movement, such as a school of art)
- (biology) representative (plant or animal belonging to a specific group of living organisms, having characteristics characteristic of it)
Declension
Declension of przedstawiciel
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Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), przedstawiciel is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 15 times in scientific texts, 103 times in news, 30 times in essays, 3 times in fiction, and 2 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 153 times, making it the 373rd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.
References
- ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “przedstawiciel”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
- ^ Ruski Inwalid : czyli wiadomości wojenne (in Polish), number 34, 1820 February 12, page 1
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “przedstawiciel”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 446
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