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Etymology edit

From siła +‎ -nik. First attested in 1836.[1]

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈɕil.ɲik/
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  • Rhymes: -ilɲik
  • Syllabification: sil‧nik

Noun edit

silnik m inan (diminutive silniczek, related adjective silnikowy)

  1. engine (the part of a car or other vehicle which provides the force for motion, now especially one powered by internal combustion)
    Synonym: motor
  2. (computing) engine (a software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task (usually with qualifying word))

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Trivia edit

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), silnik is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 93 times in scientific texts, 9 times in news, 4 times in essays, 6 times in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 113 times, making it the 545th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References edit

  1. ^ Tygodnik Rolniczo-Technologiczny (in Polish), volume 2, number 47, 1836 November 18, page 372
  2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “silnik”, 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 528

Further reading edit

Serbo-Croatian edit

Etymology edit

From sȉla.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /sîːlniːk/
  • Hyphenation: sil‧nik

Noun edit

sȋlnīk m (Cyrillic spelling си̑лнӣк)

  1. potentate

Declension edit

References edit

  • silnik” in Hrvatski jezični portal