zakres
Polish
editEtymology
editDeverbal from zakresić (modern zakreślić). First attested in the 18th century.[1]
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈza.krɛs/
- (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈza.krɛs/, /ˈza.kres/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -akrɛs
- Syllabification: za‧kres
Noun
editzakres m inan (related adjective zakresowy)
- range, scope (limited in some way area of activities or phenomena; selection, array)
- range (maximum distance or reach of capability)
- (logic) denotation
- (obsolete) nick (mark from cutting)
- (obsolete) border
- Synonym: granica
- (obsolete) district (administrative division of an area)
- Synonym: powiat
Declension
editDeclension of zakres
Derived terms
editadverb
Related terms
editadverb
verbs
- kreślić impf
Trivia
editAccording to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), zakres is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 46 times in scientific texts, 39 times in news, 100 times in essays, 2 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 190 times, making it the 299th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]
References
editFurther reading
edit- zakres in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- zakres in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “zakres”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1927), “zakres”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 8, Warsaw, page 134