Polish

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Etymology

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From nauka +‎ -owy. First attested in the 18th century.[1] Compare Kashubian nôùkòwi and Ukrainian науко́вий (naukóvyj).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /na.uˈkɔ.vɨ/, (colloquial) /nawˈkɔ.vɨ/
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  • Rhymes: -ɔvɨ
  • Syllabification: na‧u‧ko‧wy
  • Syllabification: nau‧ko‧wy

Adjective

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naukowy (not generally comparable, comparative bardziej naukowy, superlative najbardziej naukowy, derived adverb naukowo)

  1. (relational) scientific (of, or having to do with science)
    Synonym: badawczy
  2. (relational) learning (of or relating to the act of learning)

Declension

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Trivia

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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), naukowy is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 55 times in scientific texts, 33 times in news, 52 times in essays, 3 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 146 times, making it the 396th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “naukowy”, in Słownik języka polskiego
  2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “naukowy”, 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 276

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