społeczeństwo

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Polish

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Etymology

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From społeczny +‎ -stwo.[1][2] First attested in 1715.[3] Compare Czech společenství and Slovak spoločenstvo.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /spɔ.wɛˈt͡ʂɛɲ.stfɔ/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛɲstfɔ
  • Syllabification: spo‧łe‧czeń‧stwo

Noun

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społeczeństwo n

  1. society, community (long-standing group of people sharing cultural aspects such as language, dress, norms of behavior and artistic forms)
  2. society, community (group of insects living in a common nest, organized into specific groups due to their structure and the type of work performed)
  3. society, community (group of people who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest; an association or organization)
  4. (obsolete) company (act of being with someone)

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Kashubian: spòłeczeństwò

Trivia

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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), społeczeństwo is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 32 times in scientific texts, 24 times in news, 78 times in essays, 8 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 145 times, making it the 401st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “społeczny”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  2. ^ Mańczak, Witold (2017) “społeczny”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
  3. ^ Małpa-człowiek[1] (in Polish), 1715, page 263
  4. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “społeczeństwo”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 547

Further reading

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