Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word
sprzęt. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word
sprzęt, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say
sprzęt in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word
sprzęt you have here. The definition of the word
sprzęt will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition of
sprzęt, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
Polish
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
- Rhymes: -ɛnt
- Syllabification: sprzęt
Noun
sprzęt m inan (diminutive sprzęcik, related adjective sprzętowy)
- (uncountable) equipment; gear, tackle (all items collectively used in equipping something or someone)
- (countable, chiefly in the plural) equipment (single object used in equipping)
- (countable, chiefly in the plural) equipment; gear, tackle (all items collectively used in a particular field of activity, such as skiing)
- (uncountable, chiefly in the plural, agriculture, obsolete) harvest (act of picking crops from the field and taking them to some place)
- Synonym: zbiór
- (uncountable, obsolete) harvest (that which is picked and taken somewhere from a field)
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “sprzątać”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
- ^ Mańczak, Witold (2017) “sprzęt”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
- ^ 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]
Further reading
- sprzęt in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- sprzęt in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “sprzęt”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “sprzęt”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1915), “sprzęt”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 6, Warsaw, page 361