temat
See also: témát
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin thema (genitive thematis).[1] First attested in the 19th century.[2] Compare Kashubian téma and Silesian tymat.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
temat m inan (diminutive temacik, related adjective tematowy or tematyczny)
- subject (main topic)
- Synonym: przedmiot
- (linguistics) theme, topic (what is generally being talked about)
- Coordinate term: remat
- (grammar) stem (part of a word invariant under inflection)
- Synonym: rdzeń
- (music) theme (main melody of a piece of music)
- Synonym: motyw
- (chess) base idea on which a chess task is based (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)
Declension edit
Declension of temat
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Trivia edit
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), temat is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 21 times in scientific texts, 57 times in news, 45 times in essays, 25 times in fiction, and 12 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 160 times, making it the 363rd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]
References edit
- ^ Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “temat”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language][1] (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
- ^ J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “temat”, in Słownik języka polskiego[2] (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 41
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “temat”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language][3] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 599
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