areszt
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian arresto or arrestare ('to arrest'), from French arrêt, from Latin restare ('to leave').[1]
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Noun edit
areszt m inan
- (law) arrest (an act or instance of an arrest)
- (law) sequestration (an act or instance of an arrest)
- Synonyms: sekwestr, sekwestracja
- holding cell (place where the arrest is carried out)
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Declension of areszt
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- ^ Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “areszt”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish): “włos. 'arresto', 'arrestare' ‘zatrzymywać, więzić (za wyrokiem)’, franc. 'arrêt', ostatecznie od łac. 'restare', ‘pozostawać’”