placówka

See also: placówką and placówkä

Polish edit

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placówka

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Etymology edit

From plac +‎ -ówka. Ellipsis of straż placowa (“plaza guard”).^[1] First attested in 1773.^[2]

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /plaˈt͡suf.ka/
(Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /plaˈt͡sof.ka/
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Rhymes: -ufka
Syllabification: pla‧ców‧ka

Noun edit

placówka f

(diplomacy, trading) agency, branch, mission; foreign facility, foreign branch (diplomatic or commercial representative office of a country located in the territory of another country)
Synonym: przedstawicielstwo
center, facility, institution; agency
Synonyms: instytucja, ośrodek
(military) post (place guarded by a military)
(military) outpost (stopping place of the branch that insures the military of a given country)

Declension edit

Declension of placówka

	singular	plural
nominative	placówka	placówki
genitive	placówki	placówek
dative	placówce	placówkom
accusative	placówkę	placówki
instrumental	placówką	placówkami
locative	placówce	placówkach
vocative	placówko	placówki

Descendants edit

→ Masurian: placówkä

Trivia edit

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), placówka is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 5 times in scientific texts, 31 times in news, 21 times in essays, 4 times in fiction, and 2 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 63 times, making it the 1042nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[3]

References edit

^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “placówka”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
^ Publius Cornelius Tacitus (1773) Kaia Korneliusza Tacyta Dzieła wszystkie (in Polish), volume 2, page 33
^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “placówka”, 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 371