późno

See also: pozno, póżno, and poźno

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pósder.
Proto-Slavic *pozdъ
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Balto-Slavic *-inas
Proto-Slavic *-ьnъ
Proto-Slavic *pozdь́nъ
Old Polish pozdny
Proto-Slavic *-o
Old Polish -o
Old Polish poźno
Polish późno

    Inherited from Old Polish poźno. By surface analysis, późny +‎ -o.

    Pronunciation

     
    • IPA(key): /ˈpuʑ.nɔ/
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    • Rhymes: -uʑnɔ
    • Syllabification: póź‧no

    Adverb

    późno (comparative później, superlative najpóźniej)

    1. late (after a set time)
      Antonym: wcześnie
    2. late (in the later part of the day)
      Antonym: wcześnie
    3. late (after a longer time than usual or expected)
      Antonym: wcześnie
    4. late (being of relatively advanced age)
      Antonym: wcześnie

    Derived terms

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    Trivia

    According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), późno is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 40 times in scientific texts, 12 times in news, 10 times in essays, 34 times in fiction, and 31 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 127 times, making it the 470th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

    References

    1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “późno”, 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 429

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