zasadniczy

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Polish

Etymology

From zasadnik +‎ -y.[1][2] First attested in 1796.[3]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /za.sadˈɲi.t͡ʂɘ/
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  • Rhymes: -it͡ʂɘ
  • Syllabification: za‧sad‧ni‧czy

Adjective

zasadniczy (comparative bardziej zasadniczy, superlative najbardziej zasadniczy, derived adverb zasadniczo)

  1. elementary, basic, fundamental, essential, main, prime (having the most meaning)
    Synonyms: fundamentalny, główny, kardynalny, podstawowy
  2. principal, straight (paid directely without taking quality of work into consideration)
  3. principled, scrupulous, rule-oriented (sticking to rules)
    Synonyms: pryncypialny, rygorystyczny

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Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), zasadniczy is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 29 times in scientific texts, 17 times in news, 28 times in essays, 1 time in fiction, and 2 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 77 times, making it the 845th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[4]

References

  1. ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “zasada”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  2. ^ Mańczak, Witold (2017) “zasada”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
  3. ^ Gazeta Krakowska (in Polish), number 103, 1796 December 28, page 3
  4. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “zasadniczy”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 750

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