See also: zespol and zespól

Polish edit

 
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Etymology edit

Deverbal from zespolić. First attested in 1834.[1]

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈzɛ.spuw/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛspuw
  • Syllabification: ze‧spół

Noun edit

zespół m inan (diminutive zespolik, related adjective zespołowy)

  1. team (group of people involved in the same work)
    Synonyms: asocjacja, gremium, ekipa, team
    1. band (group of musicians who perform together as an ensemble)
  2. complex (assemblage of related things creating a whole)
    Synonym: kompleks
  3. (engineering, technology) unit, set (part of a device or several connected devices composed of smaller elements that perform a specific function in the operation of the whole)
    zespół napędowypowertrain/power unit
  4. (pathology) syndrome (recognizable pattern of signs, symptoms and/or behaviours, especially of a disease or medical or psychological condition)
    Synonym: syndrom
  5. (botany) network; community; system (plant community with a specific structure and species composition, characterized by specific ecological properties)
    Synonym: kompleks
  6. (obsolete) joining, uniting; joint, link, connection
    Synonym: zespolenie

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Trivia edit

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), zespół is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 26 times in scientific texts, 85 times in news, 35 times in essays, 5 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 154 times, making it the 372nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References edit

  1. ^ Orędownik Naukowy (in Polish), number 2, 1834 January 9, page 13
  2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “zespół”, 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 768

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