Czech

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin classis.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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klasa f

  1. (informal, archaic) class (group of students taught together)
    Synonym: třída

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Further reading

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  • klasa”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935-1957
  • klasa”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Icelandic

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Noun

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klasa

  1. inflection of klasi:
    1. indefinite accusative
    2. indefinite dative singular
    3. indefinite genitive

Kashubian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Polish klasa.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈklasa/
  • Rhymes: -asa
  • Syllabification: kla‧sa

Noun

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klasa f

  1. class (group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes)
  2. (education) grade, form (level of primary and secondary education)
  3. grade, form (students in such a level)
  4. class, classroom (room, often in a school, where classes take place)
  5. (sociology) class (social grouping)
  6. class (category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation)

Declension

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Further reading

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  • Stefan Ramułt (1893) “klasa”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego (in Kashubian), page 71
  • Jan Trepczyk (1994) “klasa”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
  • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi[2]
  • klasa”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Masurian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Polish klasa.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈklasa/
  • Rhymes: -asa
  • Syllabification: kla‧sa

Noun

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klasa f

  1. class (group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes)
  2. (taxonomy) class (rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank)
  3. (sociology) class (social grouping)
  4. (education) grade, form (level of primary and secondary education)
  5. grade, form (students in such a level)
  6. class, classroom (room, often in a school, where classes take place)

Further reading

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  • Zofia Stamirowska (1987-2024) “klasa”, in Anna Basara, editor, Słownik gwar Ostródzkiego, Warmii i Mazur, volume 3, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, →ISBN, page 201

Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Internationalism; possibly borrowed from German Klasse or French classe, ultimately from Latin classis.[1][2][3] Sense 13 is a semantic loan from English class. First attested in 1688.[4]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkla.sa/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈkla.sa/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -asa
  • Syllabification: kla‧sa

Noun

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klasa f (related adjective klasowy, abbreviation kl.)

  1. (countable) class (group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes)
    Synonym: kategoria
  2. (countable, education) grade, form (level of primary and secondary education)
    Synonym: oddział
  3. (countable) grade, form (students in such a level)
  4. (countable) class, classroom (room, often in a school, where classes take place)
  5. (countable) class (subject of study in art education at a specific level)
  6. (countable, sociology) class (social grouping)
    Synonym: warstwa
  7. (uncountable) class (group of entities distinguished because of the quality or level assigned to them in relation to other objects of the same type)
  8. (countable) class (degree in a closed hierarchy of objects of the same type)
    Synonym: stopień
  9. (countable, taxonomy) class (rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank)
  10. (countable, sports) class, grade, rank (type or level of sports competition)
  11. (countable) class (category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation)
  12. (uncountable) class (admirable behavior; elegance)
    Synonym: kultura
  13. (countable, object-oriented programming) class (set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set in terms of its common properties, functions, etc.)
  14. (countable, set theory) class (collection of sets definable by a shared property)
    Synonym: zbiór
  15. (countable) class (degree of technical value of objects as assessed by experts)
    Synonym: jakość
  16. (in the plural, playground games) hopscotch (child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground)
  17. (in the plural, obsolete) wallball; suicide (game in which a ball is thrown against a wall with increasing difficulty)
  18. (countable, obsolete) class; circle (group of people with shared interests)
  19. (countable, obsolete or dialectal, chiefly in the plural)gymnasium, middle school
    Synonym: gimnazjum
  20. (countable, obsolete) class (lesson)
    Synonym: lekcja
  21. (obsolete) grade (mark received in school determining how well one performed at a task)
    Synonym: ocena
  22. (obsolete) income tax
    Synonym: podatek dochodowy

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Kashubian: klasa
  • Masurian: klasa

Trivia

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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), klasa (noun) is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 17 times in scientific texts, 32 times in news, 41 times in essays, 15 times in fiction, and 9 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 114 times, making it the 534th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[5]

Adjective

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klasa (not comparable, no derived adverb)

  1. first class (of high quality)
    Synonyms: pierwsza klasa, prima sort

Adverb

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klasa (not comparable)

  1. in a first class manner
    Synonyms: pierwsza klasa, prima sort

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Sławski, Franciszek (1958-1965) “klasa”, in Jan Safarewicz, Andrzej Siudut, editors, Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), Kraków: Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego
  2. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “klasa”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  3. ^ Krystyna Długosz-Kurczabowa (2021) “klasa”, in Wielki słownik etymologiczno-historyczny języka polskiego, →ISBN
  4. ^ Jan Damasceński (1688) Mateusz Ignacy Kuligowski, transl., Krolewic Indiyski w Polski stroy przybrany Albo Historya O Swiętym Jozaphacie [...] y o Swiętym Barlaamie [...]/ Od Swiętego Iana Damascena napisana, a z Græckiego ięzyka na Łaciński od Iakuba Billiusza [...] przetłumaczona; Teraz zaś Przez X. Matthevsza Ignacego Kvligowskiego [...] na wiersz Polski przełożona [...][1] (in Polish), page 199:
    Tákże, ktorzy Boginią swą bydź wyznawáią Element Wodę, y ći w głupstwie podlegáią Swym błędowi: bo Wodá od Bogá stworzona Iest ludźiom ná pożytek, y w moc im zlecona, Po ktorey oni wierzchu w rozmáite czásy Wypráwuią okręty, y woienne klássy; Bywa też poszpeconą od nich, bo do wody Ludźie rożne miotáią y gnoie, y smrody; A gdy ią ogień zwárzy, odmiány nábywa; Y częstokroć własnego koloru pozbywa: Bo zmieszána z iáką krwią iest czerwona: z wody Stáią się tákże przez mroz kryształowe lody.
  5. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “klasa (noun)”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 178

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Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology 1

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From German Klasse, from Latin classis.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /klǎsa/
  • Hyphenation: kla‧sa

Noun

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klàsa f (Cyrillic spelling кла̀са)

  1. class (all meanings)
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

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klasa (Cyrillic spelling класа)

  1. genitive singular of klas

References

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  • klasa” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Silesian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from German Klasse.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈklasa/
  • Rhymes: -asa
  • Syllabification: kla‧sa

Noun

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klasa f

  1. class (group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes)
  2. (education) grade, form (level of primary and secondary education)
  3. class, classroom (room, often in a school, where classes take place)
    Synonym: zal
  4. (sociology) class (social grouping)
  5. class (category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation)

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Slovene

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Noun

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klasa

  1. genitive singular of klas