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Etymology

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From promieniować +‎ -anie. First attested in 1822.[1] Compare Kashubian promieniowanié.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /prɔ.mjɛ.ɲɔˈva.ɲɛ/
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  • Rhymes: -aɲɛ
  • Syllabification: pro‧mie‧nio‧wa‧nie

Noun

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promieniowanie n

  1. verbal noun of promieniować
  2. radiation (particles or waves emitted by something)
    Synonym: radiacja

Declension

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Trivia

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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), promieniowanie is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 73 times in scientific texts, 1 time in news, 2 times in essays, 0 times in fiction, and 0 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 76 times, making it the 849th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Pamiętnik Warszawski (in Polish), volume v, number 9, 1822, page 96
  2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “promieniowanie”, 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 437

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