światowy

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Polish

Etymology

From świat +‎ -owy.[1][2] First attested in the 16th century.[3] Compare Czech světový, Kashubian swiatowi, and Silesian światowy, and Ukrainian світови́й (svitovýj).

Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -ɔvɘ
  • Syllabification: świa‧to‧wy

Adjective

światowy (not generally comparable, comparative bardziej światowy, superlative najbardziej światowy, derived adverb światowo)

  1. (relational, not comparable) world; global; worldwide (concerning all parts of the world)
    Synonym: globalny
  2. (literary) worldly (well-travelled, having visitied many places)
    Synonym: obyty
    1. worldly (characteristic of such a person)
  3. (religion or archaic) worldly (concerned with secular rather than sacred matters)
  4. (obsolete) easy-going; taught by the world; friendly
  5. (obsolete, mining) surface (being on the surface of the Earth; not in a mine)
  6. (obsolete, medicine) curable
    Synonym: uleczalny

Declension

Derived terms

nouns

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), światowy is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 18 times in scientific texts, 33 times in news, 41 times in essays, 2 times in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 95 times, making it the 669th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[4]

References

  1. ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “świat”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  2. ^ Krystyna Długosz-Kurczabowa (2021) “świat”, in Wielki słownik etymologiczno-historyczny języka polskiego, →ISBN
  3. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “światowy”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  4. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “światowy”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 591

Further reading

Silesian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From świat +‎ -owy. Compare Polish światowy.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɕfjaˈtɔ.vɪ/
  • Rhymes: -ɔvɪ
  • Syllabification: świa‧to‧wy

Adjective

światowy (not comparable)

  1. (relational) world; global; worldwide

Declension

Further reading