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Polish
Etymology
From społeczny + -stwo.[1][2] First attested in 1715.[3] Compare Czech společenství and Slovak spoločenstvo.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛɲstfɔ
- Syllabification: spo‧łe‧czeń‧stwo
Noun
społeczeństwo n
- society, community (long-standing group of people sharing cultural aspects such as language, dress, norms of behavior and artistic forms)
- society, community (group of insects living in a common nest, organized into specific groups due to their structure and the type of work performed)
- society, community (group of people who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest; an association or organization)
- (obsolete) company (act of being with someone)
Declension
Declension of społeczeństwo
Descendants
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), społeczeństwo is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 32 times in scientific texts, 24 times in news, 78 times in essays, 8 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 145 times, making it the 401st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[4]
References
- ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “społeczny”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
- ^ Mańczak, Witold (2017) “społeczny”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
- ^ Małpa-człowiek (in Polish), 1715, page 263
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “społeczeństwo”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 547
Further reading
- społeczeństwo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- społeczeństwo in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “społeczeństwo”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “społeczeństwo”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1915), “społeczeństwo”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 6, Warsaw, page 314