See also: rewolucją

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Etymology edit

Borrowed from French révolution.[1][2][3] First attested in 1656–1688.[4] Compare Silesian rewolucyjŏ.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /rɛ.vɔˈlu.t͡sja/
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  • Rhymes: -ut͡sja
  • Syllabification: re‧wo‧lu‧cja

Noun edit

rewolucja f (diminutive rewolucyjka, related adjective rewolucyjny)

  1. (politics) revolution (removal and replacement of a government, especially by sudden violent action)
  2. revolution (sudden, vast change in a situation, a discipline, or the way of thinking and behaving)
    Synonym: przewrót
  3. (colloquial) intense, unpleasant process inside the human body (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)
    rewolucje żołądkowestomach disturbance
  4. (colloquial) revolution (any large change)
  5. (obsolete) revolution (rotation)
    Synonym: obrót
  6. (obsolete, astronomy, of celestial bodies) revolution (traversal of one body along an orbit around another body)

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Trivia edit

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), rewolucja is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 13 times in scientific texts, 19 times in news, 15 times in essays, 7 times in fiction, and 5 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 59 times, making it the 1098th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[5]

References edit

  1. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “rewolucja”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “rewolucja”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
  3. ^ Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “rewolucja”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
  4. ^ REWOLUCYJA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 24.03.2019
  5. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “rewolucja”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[2] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 492

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