metoda

See also: metóda and Metoda

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from German Methode, from Latin methodus from Ancient Greek μέθοδος (méthodos, “pursuit of knowledge, investigation, mode of prosecuting such inquiry, system”), from μετά (metá, “after”) +‎ ὁδός (hodós, “way, motion, journey”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛtoda]

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

metoda f

1. method (process by which a task is completed)
2. (programming) method

Declension

Declension of metoda (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	metoda	metody
genitive	metody	metod
dative	metodě	metodám
accusative	metodu	metody
vocative	metodo	metody
locative	metodě	metodách
instrumental	metodou	metodami

Related terms

• metodický
• metodika
• metodologie

Further reading

• “metoda”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “metoda”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “metoda”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Ladin

Etymology

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Noun

metoda f (plural metodes)

1. method

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈme.to.dɑ/

Noun

metoda

1. genitive plural of metod

Polish

Alternative forms

• metod, metodus, metodusz (Middle Polish)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *me

Proto-Indo-European *meth₂?

Ancient Greek μετᾰ́ (metắ)

Ancient Greek μετα- (meta-)

Proto-Indo-European *sed-der.

Proto-Indo-European *sodós?

Proto-Hellenic *hodós

Ancient Greek ὁδός (hodós)

Ancient Greek μέθοδος (méthodos)bor.

Latin methodusbor.

Middle French method

French méthodebor.

Polish metoda

Borrowed from French méthode. First attested in the middle of the 16th century.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mɛˈtɔ.da/

• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /mɛˈtɔ.da/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔda
• Syllabification: me‧to‧da

Noun

metoda f

1. method (process by which a task is completed; way of doing something)

   Synonym: technika

   Near-synonyms: sposób, system

Declension

Declension of metoda

	singular	plural
nominative	metoda	metody
genitive	metody	metod
dative	metodzie	metodom
accusative	metodę	metody
instrumental	metodą	metodami
locative	metodzie	metodach
vocative	metodo	metody

Derived terms

adjectives

• metodyczny

nouns

• metoda kija i marchewki
• metoda na wnuczka
• metoda prób i błędów

Related terms

adjectives

• ametodyczny
• niemetodyczny

nouns

• metodyczność

verbs

• metodycznie
• niemetodycznie

Descendants

• → Kashubian: metoda
• → Silesian: metŏda

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), metoda is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 66 times in scientific texts, 18 times in news, 46 times in essays, 4 times in fiction, and 4 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 138 times, making it the 434th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

Further reading

• “metoda”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “metoda”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[4] (in Polish)
• Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “metoda”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• Ewa Rodek (12.05.2020), “METODA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “metoda”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “metoda”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “metoda”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 930
• Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “metoda”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
• metoda in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

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Noun

metóda f (Cyrillic spelling мето́да)

1. method

   Synonym: (Bosnia, Serbia) metod

Declension

    Declension of metoda

	singular	plural
nominative	metoda	metode
genitive	metode	metoda
dative	metodi	metodama
accusative	metodu	metode
vocative	metodo	metode
locative	metodi	metodama
instrumental	metodom	metodama