szeroki

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Polish[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Old Polish szyroki.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ʂɛˈrɔ.ki/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ʂɛˈrɔ.ki/, /ʂeˈrɔ.ki/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔki
  • Syllabification: sze‧ro‧ki

Adjective[edit]

szeroki (comparative szerszy, superlative najszerszy, derived adverb szeroko)

  1. wide, broad (having a large physical extent from side to side)
    Synonym: rozległy
    Antonym: wąski
  2. wide, broad (large in scope)
    Synonyms: obszerny, rozciągły
    Antonym: wąski
  3. wide, broad (having a large transverse dimension in relation to objects, objects of the same type)
  4. (of clothes) wide; loose
    Synonym: luźny
  5. wide (stretching far, i.e. of the sea)
  6. (obsolete, of someone's voice) booming

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Descendants[edit]

  • Old Ruthenian: шеро́кїй (šerókij)

Trivia[edit]

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), szeroki is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 30 times in scientific texts, 21 times in news, 65 times in essays, 21 times in fiction, and 7 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 144 times, making it the 409th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “szeroki”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 577

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