odcinek

Inherited from Old Polish otcinek. By surface analysis, odcinać +‎ -ek. Compare Kashubian òdcynk.

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• Rhymes: -inɛk
• Syllabification: od‧ci‧nek

odcinek m inan (diminutive odcineczek, related adjective odcinkowy)

1. stretch, section, length, segment (part of something that is long; a physical piece of something; series of events seen as a length)
2. episode, part (installment of a story or work, e.g. a television show, serial book or magazine, or radio program)
3. section; slip (separate part of a document usually confirming a transaction)
4. (military) section (place of combat operations)
5. (geometry) segment (straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them; a line segment.)
6. job description; segment, part (tasks set before someone as part of their professional competences; separate part of an activity)
7. segment, cleft, clove (that which was pulled off or cut off from something)
   1. (Middle Polish, horticulture) graft (part subtracted from the mother plant intended for reproduction)
8. (Podhale, orthography) comma (punctuation mark ,)

   Synonym: przecinek

   Kie cytas, to na odcinkach trza stajać. ― When you read, you have to pause at commas.

9. (obsolete, orthography) apostrophe (text character ’)

   Synonym: apostrof

10. (obsolete, in the plural) covered bonds

    Synonym: listy zastawne

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), odcinek is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 31 times in scientific texts, 6 times in news, 28 times in essays, 0 times in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 66 times, making it the 990th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[1]

• odcinek in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• odcinek in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “odcinek”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “odcinek”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “odcinek”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “odcinek”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 578
• Jan Karłowicz (1903), “odcinek”, in Hieronim Łopaciński, Wacław Taczanowski, editors, Słownik gwar polskich [Dictionary of Polish dialects] (in Polish), volume 3: L do O, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 393
• odcinek in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego