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Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish rzewliwy. By surface analysis, rzuć + -liwy.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ivɘ
- Syllabification: rzew‧li‧wy
Adjective
rzewliwy (comparative bardziej rzewliwy or rzewliwszy, superlative najbardziej rzewliwy or najrzewliwszy, derived adverb rzewliwie)
- (literary) maudlin, mawkish, oversentimental
- Synonyms: (Middle Polish) rzewniwy, rzewny, sentymentalny
Declension
Declension of rzewliwy (hard)
Derived terms
Further reading
- rzewliwy in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- rzewliwy in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- rzewliwy in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “rzewliwy”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “rzewny”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna