społeczny

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Polish

Etymology

From spółka +‎ -ny.[1] First attested in 1564.[2] Compare Czech společný, Kashubian spòłeczny, and Slovincian spôleczny.

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): /spɔˈwɛt͡ʂ.nɘ/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛt͡ʂnɘ
  • Syllabification: spo‧łecz‧ny

Adjective

społeczny (comparative bardziej społeczny, superlative najbardziej społeczny, derived adverb społecznie)

  1. (relational) social (of or relating to society)
  2. social (belonging to society)
    Synonym: publiczny
    Antonym: prywatny
  3. social (organized not by the state)
    Synonym: niepaństwowy
  4. (relational, sciences) social (related to describing social phenomena in society)
  5. (relational) social (concerning a particular society and its problems)
    Synonym: socjologiczny
  6. social (serving society)
  7. social (working selflessly for the good of a community)
  8. (obsolete) common, shared
    Synonym: wspólny

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Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), społeczny is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 43 times in scientific texts, 47 times in news, 172 times in essays, 13 times in fiction, and 5 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 280 times, making it the 181st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]

References

  1. ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “społeczny”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  2. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “społeczny”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  3. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “społeczny”, 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

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