silnik
Polish edit
Etymology edit
From siła + -nik. First attested in 1836.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
silnik m inan (diminutive silniczek, related adjective silnikowy)
- engine (the part of a car or other vehicle which provides the force for motion, now especially one powered by internal combustion)
- Synonym: motor
- (computing) engine (a software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task (usually with qualifying word))
Declension edit
Declension of silnik
Derived terms edit
nouns
Related terms edit
adjectives
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
- ^ Tygodnik Rolniczo-Technologiczny (in Polish), volume 2, number 47, 1836 November 18, page 372
- ^ 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
- silnik in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- silnik in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1915), “silnik”, in Słownik języka polskiego[2] (in Polish), volume 6, Warsaw, page 113
- silnik in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology edit
From sȉla.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sȋlnīk m (Cyrillic spelling си̑лнӣк)
Declension edit
Declension of silnik
References edit
- “silnik” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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