środek

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Old Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *serdъkъ. By surface analysis, śród +‎ -ek. First attested in 1444.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

środek m animacy unattested

  1. middle, center (point roughly equidistant from the edges)
    • 1874-1891 [1444], Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności, , , volume XXIII, page 308:
      Swiatly srzodek lucidum centrum (qui lucidum centrum poli candore pinguis igneo aligens decoro lumine)
      [Światły śrzodek lucidum centrum (qui lucidum centrum poli candore pinguis igneo aligens decoro lumine)]
    • 1977-1980 [1471], Wanda Żurowska-Górecka, Vladimír Kyas, editors, Mamotrekty staropolskie, page 232:
      Sinu od schrzotka zyemye (haec quoque erat fossa altaris, et de sinu terrae usque ad crepidinem novissimam duo cubiti Ezech 43, 14)
      [Sinu od śrzodka ziemie (haec quoque erat fossa altaris, et de sinu terrae usque ad crepidinem novissimam duo cubiti Ezech 43, 14)]

Derived terms

noun
preposition
adjectives
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preposition

Descendants

References

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Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish środek. By surface analysis, śród +‎ -ek.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɕrɔ.dɛk/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔdɛk
  • Syllabification: śro‧dek

Noun

środek m inan (diminutive środeczek)

  1. middle, center (point roughly equidistant from the edges)
    Synonyms: centrum, połowa, rdzeń, serce
    w środkuinside
  2. middle (point in time that divides something in two roughly equal parts)
    Synonym: połowa
  3. inside (internal part of something)
    Synonym: wnętrze
  4. means (instrument or condition for attaining a purpose)
    Synonyms: instrument, narzędzie
  5. measure (action designed to achieve some purpose)
  6. agent (active power or cause or substance; something (e.g. biological, chemical, thermal, etc.) that has the power to produce an effect)
    środek czyszczącycleaning agent
    środek nasennyopiate
    środek przeciwzbrylającyanti-caking agent
    środek przeczyszczającylaxative

Declension

Derived terms

adjective
noun
verbs

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), środek is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 67 times in scientific texts, 30 times in news, 94 times in essays, 39 times in fiction, and 18 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 248 times, making it the 215th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “środek”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 589

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