szczególnie

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Polish

Etymology

From szczególny +‎ -ie. First attested in the 16th century.[1]

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): /ʂt͡ʂɛˈɡul.ɲɛ/
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  • Rhymes: -ulɲɛ
  • Syllabification: szcze‧gól‧nie

Particle

szczególnie

  1. used to place greater emphasis upon someone or something; especially; particularly
    Synonyms: głównie, przede wszystkim, w pierwszym rzędzie, w szczególności, zwłaszcza
    Antonyms: nieszczególnie, normalnie, po prostu, zwyczajnie
  2. especially; particularly (to a greater extent than is normal)

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), szczególnie is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 38 times in scientific texts, 19 times in news, 38 times in essays, 10 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 108 times, making it the 582nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References

  1. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “szczególnie”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “szczególnie”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 575

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