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Etymology edit

Deverbal from okładać. Calque of German Belag, Besatz, and Umschlag.[1] First attested in 1538.[2]

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Noun edit

okład m inan (diminutive okładzik)

  1. (medicine) compress (cloth used to dress or apply pressure to wounds) [+ z (genitive) = made of what]
    Synonym: kompres
  2. compress application procedure
  3. wrap (material covering something)
  4. (obsolete) casing, binding
  5. (obsolete) incurrence (that which is incurred)

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References edit

  1. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “okład”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “okład”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]

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