sprzęt

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Etymology

Deverbal from sprzątać, with a semantic shift of agricultural device for collecting produce > equipment.[1][2] First attested in the 16th century.[3]

Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -ɛnt
  • Syllabification: sprzęt

Noun

sprzęt m inan (diminutive sprzęcik, related adjective sprzętowy)

  1. (uncountable) equipment; gear, tackle (all items collectively used in equipping something or someone)
  2. (countable, chiefly in the plural) equipment (single object used in equipping)
  3. (countable, chiefly in the plural) equipment; gear, tackle (all items collectively used in a particular field of activity, such as skiing)
  4. (uncountable, chiefly in the plural, agriculture, obsolete) harvest (act of picking crops from the field and taking them to some place)
    Synonym: zbiór
  5. (uncountable, obsolete) harvest (that which is picked and taken somewhere from a field)

Declension

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Descendants

  • Kashubian: sprzãt
  • Silesian: sprzynt
  • Slovincian: sprzãt

References

  1. ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “sprzątać”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  2. ^ Mańczak, Witold (2017) “sprzęt”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
  3. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “sprzęt”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]

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