ministerstwo

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-
Proto-Indo-European *-yōs
Proto-Italic *minōs
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Italic *-teros
Proto-Italic *minosteros
Latin ministerlbor.
Old Polish minister
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French ministresl.
Polish minister
Proto-Indo-European *-tusder.
Proto-Slavic *-ьstvo
Old Polish -stwo
Polish -stwo
Polish ministerstwo

    From minister + -stwo.[1] First attested in 1811.[2] Compare Kashubian minysterstwò.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /mi.ɲisˈtɛr.stfɔ/
    • Audio:(file)
    • Rhymes: -ɛrstfɔ
    • Syllabification: mi‧nis‧ter‧stwo

    Noun

    ministerstwo n (abbreviation min. or minist.)

    1. ministry (government department, at the administrative level normally headed by a minister)
      Synonym: resort
    2. ministry (building with such a department)
    3. (obsolete) position or function of a minister

    Declension

    Declension of ministerstwo
    singular plural
    nominative ministerstwo ministerstwa
    genitive ministerstwa ministerstw
    dative ministerstwu ministerstwom
    accusative ministerstwo ministerstwa
    instrumental ministerstwem ministerstwami
    locative ministerstwie ministerstwach
    vocative ministerstwo ministerstwa

    Trivia

    According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), ministerstwo is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 3 times in scientific texts, 49 times in news, 21 times in essays, 3 times in fiction, and 4 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 80 times, making it the 806th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]

    References

    1. ^ Halina Zgółkowa, editor (1994–2005), “ministerstwo”, in Praktyczny słownik współczesnej polszczyzny, volumes 1–50, Poznań: Wydawnictwo Kurpisz, →ISBN
    2. ^ Johann Friedrich Dorn (181), Nauka nayważniejszych działań w piwowarstwie i gorzelnictwie i i sądzenie o nich (in Polish), page 9
    3. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “ministerstwo”, 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 249

    Further reading

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