Polish edit

Etymology edit

From całkiem +‎ -owity, where całkiem is understood to be the instrumental singular of całek.[1][2] First attested in 1644.[3] Compare Silesian cołkowity and Masurian cáłkoziti.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /t͡saw.kɔˈvi.tɨ/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /t͡sɒɫ.kɔˈvi.tɨ/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -itɨ
  • Syllabification: cał‧ko‧wi‧ty

Adjective edit

całkowity (not comparable, derived adverb całkowicie)

  1. total, entire, complete (encompassing without exception all of something)

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

nouns

Trivia edit

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), całkowity is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 22 times in scientific texts, 19 times in news, 8 times in essays, 4 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 56 times, making it the 1149th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[4]

References edit

  1. ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “całkiem”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  2. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “całkowity”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  3. ^ Grzegorz Knapski (1644) “całkowity”, in Thesavri Polonolatinograeci Gregorii Cnapii[1] (in Polish), Cracoviae: Sumptu & Typis Francisci Caesarij
  4. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “całkowity”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[2] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 41

Further reading edit