Czech edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin classis.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

klasa f

  1. (informal, archaic) class (group of students taught together)
    Synonym: třída

Declension edit

Related terms edit

Further reading edit

  • klasa in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • klasa in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Icelandic edit

Noun edit

klasa

  1. inflection of klasi:
    1. indefinite accusative
    2. indefinite dative singular
    3. indefinite genitive

Kashubian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Polish klasa.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈklasa/
  • Syllabification: kla‧sa

Noun edit

klasa f

  1. class (group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes)
  2. (education) grade, form (level of primary and secondary education)
  3. grade, form (students in such a level)
  4. class, classroom (room, often in a school, where classes take place)
  5. (sociology) class (social grouping)
  6. class (category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation)

Declension edit

Further reading edit

  • Stefan Ramułt (1893) “klasa”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego[3] (in Kashubian), page 71
  • Jan Trepczyk (1994) “klasa”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1-2
  • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi[4]
  • klasa”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Masurian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Polish klasa.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈklasa]
  • Syllabification: kla‧sa

Noun edit

klasa f

  1. class (group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes)
  2. (taxonomy) class (rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank)
  3. (sociology) class (social grouping)
  4. (education) grade, form (level of primary and secondary education)
  5. grade, form (students in such a level)
  6. class, classroom (room, often in a school, where classes take place)

Further reading edit

  • Zofia Stamirowska (1987-2024) “klasa”, in Anna Basara, editor, Słownik gwar Ostródzkiego, Warmii i Mazur[5], volume 3, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, →ISBN, page 201

Polish edit

 
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Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Internationalism; possibly borrowed from German Klasse or French classe, ultimately from Latin classis.[1][2][3] Sense 13 is a semantic loan from English class. First attested in 1688.[4]

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈkla.sa/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈkla.sa/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -asa
  • Syllabification: kla‧sa

Noun edit

klasa f (related adjective klasowy, abbreviation kl.)

  1. (countable) class (group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes)
    Synonym: kategoria
  2. (countable, education) grade, form (level of primary and secondary education)
    Synonym: oddział
  3. (countable) grade, form (students in such a level)
  4. (countable) class, classroom (room, often in a school, where classes take place)
  5. (countable) class (subject of study in art education at a specific level)
  6. (countable, sociology) class (social grouping)
    Synonym: warstwa
  7. (uncountable) class (group of entities distinguished because of the quality or level assigned to them in relation to other objects of the same type)
  8. (countable) class (degree in a closed hierarchy of objects of the same type)
    Synonym: stopień
  9. (countable, taxonomy) class (rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank)
  10. (countable, sports) class, grade, rank (type or level of sports competition)
  11. (countable) class (category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation)
  12. (uncountable) class (admirable behavior; elegance)
    Synonym: kultura
  13. (countable, object-oriented programming) class (set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set in terms of its common properties, functions, etc.)
  14. (countable, set theory) class (collection of sets definable by a shared property)
    Synonym: zbiór
  15. (countable) class (degree of technical value of objects as assessed by experts)
    Synonym: jakość
  16. (in the plural, playground games) hopscotch (child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground)
  17. (in the plural, obsolete) wallball; suicide (game in which a ball is thrown against a wall with increasing difficulty)
  18. (countable, obsolete) class; circle (group of people with shared interests)
  19. (countable, obsolete or dialectal, chiefly in the plural)gymnasium, middle school
    Synonym: gimnazjum
  20. (countable, obsolete) class (lesson)
    Synonym: lekcja
  21. (obsolete) grade (mark received in school determining how well one performed at a task)
    Synonym: ocena
  22. (obsolete) income tax
    Synonym: podatek dochodowy

Declension edit

Descendants edit

  • Kashubian: klasa
  • Masurian: klasa

Trivia edit

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), klasa (noun) is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 17 times in scientific texts, 32 times in news, 41 times in essays, 15 times in fiction, and 9 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 114 times, making it the 534th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[5]

Adjective edit

klasa (not comparable, no derived adverb)

  1. first class (of high quality)
    Synonyms: pierwsza klasa, prima sort

Adverb edit

klasa (not comparable)

  1. in a first class manner
    Synonyms: pierwsza klasa, prima sort

Derived terms edit

adjectives
nouns
verbs

Related terms edit

adjectives

References edit

  1. ^ Sławski, Franciszek (1958-1965) “klasa”, in Jan Safarewicz, Andrzej Siudut, editors, Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), Kraków: Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego
  2. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “klasa”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  3. ^ Krystyna Długosz-Kurczabowa (2021) Wielki słownik etymologiczno-historyczny języka polskiego, →ISBN
  4. ^ Jan Damasceński (1688) Mateusz Ignacy Kuligowski, transl., Krolewic Indiyski w Polski stroy przybrany Albo Historya O Swiętym Jozaphacie [...] y o Swiętym Barlaamie [...]/ Od Swiętego Iana Damascena napisana, a z Græckiego ięzyka na Łaciński od Iakuba Billiusza [...] przetłumaczona; Teraz zaś Przez X. Matthevsza Ignacego Kvligowskiego [...] na wiersz Polski przełożona [...][1] (in Polish), page 199:
    Tákże, ktorzy Boginią swą bydź wyznawáią Element Wodę, y ći w głupstwie podlegáią Swym błędowi: bo Wodá od Bogá stworzona Iest ludźiom ná pożytek, y w moc im zlecona, Po ktorey oni wierzchu w rozmáite czásy Wypráwuią okręty, y woienne klássy; Bywa też poszpeconą od nich, bo do wody Ludźie rożne miotáią y gnoie, y smrody; A gdy ią ogień zwárzy, odmiány nábywa; Y częstokroć własnego koloru pozbywa: Bo zmieszána z iáką krwią iest czerwona: z wody Stáią się tákże przez mroz kryształowe lody.
  5. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “klasa (noun)”, 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 178

Further reading edit

Serbo-Croatian edit

Etymology 1 edit

From German Klasse, from Latin classis.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /klǎsa/
  • Hyphenation: kla‧sa

Noun edit

klàsa f (Cyrillic spelling кла̀са)

  1. class (all meanings)
Declension edit
Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun edit

klasa (Cyrillic spelling класа)

  1. genitive singular of klas

References edit

  • klasa” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Silesian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from German Klasse.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈklasa/
  • Rhymes: -asa
  • Syllabification: kla‧sa

Noun edit

klasa f

  1. class (group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes)
  2. (education) grade, form (level of primary and secondary education)
  3. class, classroom (room, often in a school, where classes take place)
    Synonym: zal
  4. (sociology) class (social grouping)
  5. class (category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation)

Declension edit

Further reading edit

Slovene edit

Noun edit

klasa

  1. genitive singular of klas