See also: warstwą

Polish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vьrstva.[1][2] First attested in the 16th century.[3] Doublet of wiorsta.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -arstfa
  • Syllabification: war‧stwa

Noun

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warstwa f (diminutive warstewka, related adjective warstwowy)

  1. layer; coat; film; coating (single thickness of some material covering a surface)
    1. layer (item of clothing worn under or over another)
  2. (sociology) stratum (class of society composed of people with similar social, cultural, or economic status)
    Synonyms: klasa, pokład, stan
  3. (literary) layer; tier (components of a thing or phenomenon with specific features, isolated on the basis of adopted criteria)
    Synonyms: płaszczyzna, poziom
  4. (geology) layer, bed, stratum (layer of sedimentary rock having approximately the same composition throughout)

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Trivia

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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), warstwa is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 40 times in scientific texts, 118 times in news, 4 times in essays, 6 times in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 169 times, making it the 342nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “warstwa”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  2. ^ Mańczak, Witold (2017) “warstwa”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
  3. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “warstwa”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku
  4. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “warstwa”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 652

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