sesja
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Polish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin sessiō.[1][2][3] First attested in the 16th century.[4]
Pronunciation
Noun
sesja f (diminutive sesyjka, related adjective sesyjny)
- session (period devoted to a particular activity)
- session (meeting of a council, court, school, or legislative body to conduct its business)
- session; photo shoot, jam session (meeting for shooting pictures or recording or playing music)
- (education) exam (period of time when students take a test, especially at the end of a semester or year)
- (economics) session (period of operation of the stock market)
- (computing) certain amount of data written on a CD or DVD at one time (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)
Declension
Declension of sesja
Descendants
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), sesja is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 1 time in scientific texts, 40 times in news, 39 times in essays, 1 time in fiction, and 0 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 81 times, making it the 794th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[5]
References
- ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “sesja”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
- ^ Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “sesja”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
- ^ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “sesja”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
- ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “sessyja”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “sesja”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 524
Further reading
- sesja in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- sesja in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- “SESYJA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 26.10.2008
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “sesja”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “sesja”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1915), “sesja”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 6, Warsaw, page 77