stacja
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See also: stacją
Polish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish stacyja.
Pronunciation
Noun
stacja f (diminutive stacyjka, related adjective stacyjny, abbreviation st.)
- station (place of stopping for transportation)
- station (place used for broadcasting radio or television; the broadcasting entity itself)
- station (unit dealing with a particular activity)
- (Roman Catholicism) station (any of the Stations of the Cross)
- (obsolete, historical) obligation to provide room and board to one's ruler as they are travelling
- (obsolete, Christianity) station (church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers; act of halting to pray)
- (obsolete) station (fact of standing still; motionlessness, stasis)
- (obsolete) place where a post or mail horse is swapped out
- (obsolete) place where a land surveyor measures the land
- (obsolete) provisions; fodder
- (obsolete) place that serves a local region of a country
- (obsolete, historical) prehistoric settlement
Declension
Declension of stacja
Derived terms
nouns
Descendants
- → Kashubian: stacjô
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), stacja is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 18 times in scientific texts, 32 times in news, 6 times in essays, 19 times in fiction, and 6 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 81 times, making it the 795th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]
References
Further reading
- stacja in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- stacja in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “stacyja”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “stacya”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “stacja”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1915), “stacja”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 6, Warsaw, page 377