adwokat

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See also: adwökāt

Elfdalian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Swedish advokat.

Noun[edit]

adwokat m

  1. advocate, solicitor

Declension[edit]

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Polish[edit]

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Etymology 1[edit]

Learned borrowing from Latin advocatus.[1][2] Sense 2 is a semantic loan from German Advokat and French avocat.[1] Doublet of wójt (government clerk, overlord). First attested in 1559.[3]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /adˈvɔ.kat/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ɒdˈvɔ.kat/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔkat
  • Syllabification: ad‧wo‧kat

Noun[edit]

adwokat m pers (diminutive adwokacik, feminine adwokatka)

  1. (law) advocate, attorney, barrister, solicitor, lawyer, counsel
    Synonym: prawnik
  2. (figuratively) advocate (person who speaks in support of something)
    Synonym: rzecznik
    adwokat dzieckachildren's advocate
    adwokat biednychadvocate for the poor
    adwokat jakiejś sprawyadvocate of some issue
    adwokat interesów krajowychadvocate of national interests
  3. (Middle Polish) government clerk exercising jurisdictional authority
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Etymology 2[edit]

Borrowed from Dutch advocaat.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /adˈvɔ.kat/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔkat
  • Syllabification: ad‧wo‧kat

Noun[edit]

adwokat m inan

  1. advocaat
    Synonym: ajerkoniak
    butelka adwokatabottle of advocaat
    kieliszek adwokataglass of advocaat
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Trivia[edit]

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), adwokat is one of the top 10,355 most used words in Polish, appearing 0 times in scientific texts, 3 times in news, 6 times in essays, 8 times in fiction, and 4 times in plays, totaling 21 times, making it the 2768th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[4]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Andrzej Bańkowski (2000) Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego (in Polish)
  2. ^ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “adwokat”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
  3. ^ adwokat”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish], 2010-2022
  4. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “adwokat”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 2
  • Pęzik, Piotr; Przepiórkowski, A.; Bańko, M.; Górski, R.; Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, B (2012) Wyszukiwarka PELCRA dla danych NKJP. Narodowy Korpus Języka Polskiego [National Polish Language Corpus, PELCRA search engine]‎[1], Wydawnictwo PWN

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