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czynnik

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Etymology

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Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷey-der.
Proto-Slavic *činъ
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Balto-Slavic *-éitei
Proto-Slavic *-iti
Proto-Slavic *činiti
Old Polish czynić
Polish czynić
Proto-Slavic *-nъ
Proto-Indo-European *-eykos
Proto-Balto-Slavic *-eikas
Proto-Slavic *-ikъ
Proto-Slavic *-nikъ
Old Polish -nik
Polish -nik
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Latin factorcalq.
Polish czynnik

    From czynić + -nik.[1] Calque of Latin factor. First attested in 1782.[2]

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʂɘn.ɲik/
    • Audio:(file)
    • Rhymes: -ɘnɲik
    • Syllabification: czyn‧nik

    Noun

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    czynnik m inan (related adjective czynnikowy)

    1. factor (one of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result)
      Synonym: faktor
    2. (literary) factor (group of people affecting something)
    3. (mathematics) factor (any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole)
      czynnik pierwszy ― prime factor
      rozłożyć/rozkładać liczbę na czynniki pierwsze ― to prime factor a number

    Declension

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    Declension of czynnik
    singular plural
    nominative czynnik czynniki
    genitive czynnika czynników
    dative czynnikowi czynnikom
    accusative czynnik czynniki
    instrumental czynnikiem czynnikami
    locative czynniku czynnikach
    vocative czynniku czynniki

    Derived terms

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    nouns

    Descendants

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    • → Kashubian: czinnik

    Trivia

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    According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), czynnik is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 55 times in scientific texts, 2 times in news, 30 times in essays, 2 times in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 90 times, making it the 706th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]

    References

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    1. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “czynnik”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
    2. ^ Simon Antoine Jean L'Huillier (1782), Algiebra dla szkół narodowych (in Polish), page 8
    3. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “czynnik”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 65

    Further reading

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