sportowy

Polish edit

Etymology edit

From sport +‎ -owy. First attested in 1855.^[1] Compare Kashubian spòrtowi and Silesian szportowy.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /spɔrˈtɔ.vɨ/
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -ɔvɨ
Syllabification: spor‧to‧wy

Adjective edit

sportowy (not comparable, derived adverb sportowo)

(relational) sport
Synonym: atletyczny
(of clothes) sport, sporting, athletic, sporty (having a simple cut, comfortable and therefore suitable for everyday wear, but not suitable for formal occasions)
Synonym: wizytowy
(of a car) sport (low, developing high speed, usually designed for two people)
sporting (consistent with the principles of fair competition)

Declension edit

Declension of sportowy (hard)

singular					plural
	masculine animate	masculine inanimate	feminine	neuter	virile (= masculine personal)	non-virile
nominative	sportowy		sportowa	sportowe	sportowi	sportowe
genitive	sportowego		sportowej	sportowego	sportowych
dative	sportowemu		sportowej	sportowemu	sportowym
accusative	sportowego	sportowy	sportową	sportowe	sportowych	sportowe
instrumental	sportowym		sportową	sportowym	sportowymi
locative	sportowym		sportowej	sportowym	sportowych

Derived terms edit

adverbs

po sportowemu

nouns

Trivia edit

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), sportowy is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 5 times in scientific texts, 41 times in news, 8 times in essays, 5 times in fiction, and 2 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 61 times, making it the 1076th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[2]

References edit

^ Gazeta Codzienna (in Polish), number 195, 1855 July 27, page 2
^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “sportowy”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎^[1] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 548