ustawa

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See also: ùstawa, ustawą, ustawã, ùstawã, and ùstawą

Old Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ustava. By surface analysis, deverbal from ustawić. First attested in the 15th century.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /ustava/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /ustava/

Noun

ustawa f

  1. (law) ordinance, legal provision, legal principle, statute
    • 1895 [Fifteenth century], Franciszek Piekosiński, editor, Tłumaczenia polskie statutów ziemskich. Kodeks Działyńskich I‎, page 24:
      Kto syą vkorzy, yvsz gest rozgrzeszon, ale to podlug boga, ale nye vstawy czyrekwie swiątey
      [Kto się ukorzy, już jest rozgrzeszon, ale to podług Boga, ale nie ustawy cyrekwie świętej]

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Descendants

  • Polish: ustawa
  • Silesian: ustawa

References

Polish

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Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish ustawa. By surface analysis, deverbal from ustawić.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /uˈsta.va/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /uˈsta.va/
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  • Rhymes: -ava
  • Syllabification: u‧sta‧wa

Noun

ustawa f (related adjective ustawowy, abbreviation ust.)

  1. (law) act; statute; bill; law (generally applicable legal act, adopted by the highest state authorities, relating to a specific field)
  2. (obsolete, sometimes collective) rule (norm of behavior in some group)
  3. (obsolete) institution (act of instituting, enacting, or appoint)
    Synonym: ustanowienie
  4. (obsolete, law) sanction (penalty, punishment, or some coercive measure, intended to ensure compliance)
    Synonym: sankcja
  5. (obsolete) agreement; arrangement
    Synonyms: ugoda, układ
  6. (obsolete) placement (act of placing)
    Synonym: ustawienie
  7. (obsolete, philosophy) composition, makeup (that which makes up something; the way it is organized)

Declension

Declension of ustawa
singular plural
nominative ustawa ustawy
genitive ustawy ustaw
dative ustawie ustawom
accusative ustawę ustawy
instrumental ustawą ustawami
locative ustawie ustawach
vocative ustawo ustawy

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Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), ustawa is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 8 times in scientific texts, 16 times in news, 33 times in essays, 1 time in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 59 times, making it the 1099th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

References

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “ustawa”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 640

Further reading

  • ustawa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • ustawa in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “ustawa”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • “USTAWA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 09.09.2011
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “ustawa”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “ustawa”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎
  • J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “ustawa”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎ (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 375

Silesian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish ustawa. By surface analysis, deverbal from ustawić.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /uˈstava/
  • Rhymes: -ava
  • Syllabification: u‧sta‧wa

Noun

ustawa f

  1. (rare, law) act; statute; bill (generally applicable legal act, adopted by the highest state authorities, relating to a specific field)
    Synonyms: gezec, ordōnek, zakōn

Further reading

  • Henryk Jaroszewicz (2022) “ustawa”, in Zasady pisowni języka śląskiego (in Polish), Siedlce: Wydawnictwo Naukowe IKRBL, page 147
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