przypadek

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Old Polish

Etymology

From przypaść +‎ -ek. First attested in 1487. Compare Old Czech případek.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /pr̝ipaːdɛk/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /pr̝ipɒdɛk/

Noun

przypadek m animacy unattested

  1. that what someone may be entitled to in addition to the inheritance share
    • 1856-1870 [1487], Antoni Zygmunt Helcel, editor, Starodawne Prawa Polskiego Pomniki, volume IX, number 973:
      Vendidit (sc. Zophia) partem suam totam aduocacie... cum omnibus prouentibus, censibus, obuencionibus, cessionibus al. z przypadky ac emolimentis
      [Vendidit (sc. Zofija) partem suam totam aduocacie... cum omnibus prouentibus, censibus, obuencionibus, cessionibus al. z przypadki ac emolimentis]
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Descendants

  • Polish: przypadek
  • Silesian: przipŏdek

References

  • Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “przypadek”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  • Mańczak, Witold (2017) “przypadek”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
  • Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “przypadek 1”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  • B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “przypadek”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Polish

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Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish przypadek. By surface analysis, przypadać +‎ -ek. Sense 1 is a semantic loan from Latin cāsus, which displaced spadek.[1][2] Compare Czech případek, Kashubian przëpôdk, and Russian припа́док (pripádok). Further compare Hungarian eset.

Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -adɛk
  • Syllabification: przy‧pa‧dek

Noun

przypadek m inan (abbreviation przyp.)

  1. chance, accident; coincidence (situation which occurred that could not have been predicted)
    Synonyms: traf, zbieg okoliczności
  2. event, instance, case (something that happened)
    Synonyms: wydarzenie, wypadek
    w takim przypadkuin that case
  3. (medicine) case (instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms)
    Synonyms: kazus, syndrom
  4. (medicine) case (person representing said condition or set of symptoms)
  5. (obsolete) adventure; event
  6. (obsolete, chiefly in the plural) facts; events (that which occurred in someone's life)
  7. (Middle Polish) characteristic (that which defines a person's features or behaviors)
  8. (Middle Polish) shift (established order of performing duties)
    Synonym: zmiana
  9. (Middle Polish) fate
    Synonyms: los, przeznaczenie
  10. (Middle Polish) assets, income (that which belongs to someone)
  11. (Middle Polish) tribute, tax
  12. (Middle Polish) will; regulations, commandments (that what someone wants)
  13. (Middle Polish) property (that which belongs to or is located in a particular area)
  14. (Middle Polish, of land) addition, adjacency

Declension

Noun

przypadek m inan

  1. (grammar) case

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Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), przypadek is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 90 times in scientific texts, 6 times in news, 30 times in essays, 12 times in fiction, and 13 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 151 times, making it the 380th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]

References

  1. ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “przypadek”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  2. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “przypadek 2”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  3. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “przypadek”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 470

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