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ogromny

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Polish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From ogrom +‎ -ny.[1] First attested in 1558.[2] Compare Czech ohromný.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɔmnɘ
  • Syllabification: o‧grom‧ny

Adjective

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ogromny (comparative ogromniejszy, superlative najogromniejszy, derived adverb ogromnie)

  1. immense, huge (very large, intense, or broad)
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:duży
  2. (obsolete) rich; powerful
  3. (Middle Polish) wonderful; grand
  4. (Middle Polish) very loud; thunderous
  5. (Middle Polish) terrifying (causing fear)
  6. (Middle Polish) off-putting; ugly
  7. (Middle Polish) shameful, unworthy

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Kashubian: ògromny
  • Silesian: ôgrōmny

Trivia

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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), ogromny is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 23 times in scientific texts, 19 times in news, 33 times in essays, 15 times in fiction, and 9 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 99 times, making it the 637th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “ogromny”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “ogromny”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  3. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “ogromny”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 327

Further reading

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