Polish edit

 
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Etymology edit

From minister +‎ -stwo. First attested in 1811.[1] Compare Kashubian minysterstwò.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /mi.ɲisˈtɛr.stfɔ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛrstfɔ
  • Syllabification: mi‧nis‧ter‧stwo

Noun edit

ministerstwo n (abbreviation min. or minist.)

  1. ministry (government department, at the administrative level normally headed by a minister)
    Synonym: resort
  2. ministry (building with such a department)
  3. (obsolete) position or function of a minister

Declension edit

Trivia edit

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), ministerstwo is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 3 times in scientific texts, 49 times in news, 21 times in essays, 3 times in fiction, and 4 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 80 times, making it the 806th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References edit

  1. ^ Johann Friedrich Dorn (181) Nauka nayważniejszych działań w piwowarstwie i gorzelnictwie i i sądzenie o nich (in Polish), page 9
  2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “ministerstwo”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 249

Further reading edit