poziom

Polish

Alternative forms

  • poziem (obsolete)

Etymology

    Back-formation from poziemny.[1] Sense 8 is a semantic loan from English level. First attested in 1754–1765.[2]

    Pronunciation

     
    • IPA(key): /ˈpɔ.ʑɔm/
    • Audio:(file)
    • Rhymes: -ɔʑɔm
    • Syllabification: po‧ziom

    Noun

    poziom m inan

    1. level (distance relative to a given reference elevation)
      Synonym: wysokość
    2. level (direction parallel to the ground)
    3. level (decreasing or increasing amount of something)
      Synonym: stopień
    4. level (degree of development of something, some type of activity)
    5. level (someone's level of education, culture, morality)
      Synonym: stopień
    6. level (quality of something)
      Synonym: jakość
    7. level (aspect of something)
      Near-synonym: aspekt
    9. (video games) level (one of several discrete segments of a game)
    10. (architecture) level, floor
      Synonym: piętro
    11. (obsolete, geology) layer (layer of sedimentary rock having approximately the same composition throughout)
      Synonym: warstwa

    Declension

    Declension of poziom
    singular plural
    nominative poziom poziomy
    genitive poziomu poziomów
    dative poziomowi poziomom
    accusative poziom poziomy
    instrumental poziomem poziomami
    locative poziomie poziomach
    vocative poziomie poziomy

    Derived terms

    adjectives
    adverbs
    nouns
    verbs
    • poziomować impf
    adjectives
    • poziomicowy
    nouns
    adverbs

    Trivia

    According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), poziom is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 32 times in scientific texts, 17 times in news, 70 times in essays, 9 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 131 times, making it the 461st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]

    References

    1. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “poziom”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
    2. ^ “POZIOM”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 13.07.2020
    3. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “poziom”, 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 424

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