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Etymology edit

From Swedish advokat.

Noun edit

adwokat m

  1. advocate, solicitor

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Etymology 1 edit

Learned borrowing from Latin advocātus.[1][2] Sense 2 is a semantic loan from German Advokat and French avocat.[1] Doublet of wójt (government clerk, overlord). First attested in 1559.[3]

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /adˈvɔ.kat/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /adˈvɔ.kɒt/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔkat
  • Syllabification: ad‧wo‧kat

Noun edit

adwokat m pers (female equivalent adwokatka, diminutive adwokacik)

  1. (law) advocate, attorney, barrister, solicitor, lawyer, counsel
    Synonym: prawnik
  2. (figuratively) advocate (person who speaks in support of something)
    Synonym: rzecznik
    adwokat dzieckachildren's advocate
    adwokat biednychadvocate for the poor
    adwokat jakiejś sprawyadvocate of some issue
    adwokat interesów krajowychadvocate of national interests
  3. (Middle Polish) government clerk exercising jurisdictional authority
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Etymology 2 edit

Borrowed from Dutch advocaat.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /adˈvɔ.kat/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔkat
  • Syllabification: ad‧wo‧kat

Noun edit

adwokat m inan

  1. advocaat
    Synonyms: ajerkoniak, jajecznik
    butelka adwokatabottle of advocaat
    kieliszek adwokataglass of advocaat
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Trivia edit

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), adwokat is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 0 times in scientific texts, 3 times in news, 6 times in essays, 8 times in fiction, and 4 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 21 times, making it the 2768th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[4]

References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “adwokat”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. ^ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “adwokat”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
  3. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “adwokat”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  4. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “adwokat”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 2

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