silnik
Polish
Etymology
Etymology tree
From siła + -nik. First attested in 1836.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɕil.ɲik/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ilɲik
- Syllabification: sil‧nik
Noun
silnik m inan (diminutive silniczek, related adjective silnikowy)
- engine (the part of a car or other vehicle which provides the force for motion, now especially one powered by internal combustion)
- Synonym: motor
- (computing) engine (a software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task (usually with qualifying word))
Declension
Declension of silnik
Derived terms
nouns
- pojemność skokowa silnika
- silnik rozbiega się
Related terms
adjectives
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), silnik is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 93 times in scientific texts, 9 times in news, 4 times in essays, 6 times in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 113 times, making it the 545th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]
References
- ^ Tygodnik Rolniczo-Technologiczny (in Polish), volume 2, number 47, 18 November 1836, page 372
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “silnik”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language][1] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 528
Further reading
- silnik in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- silnik in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1915), “silnik”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 6, Warsaw, page 113
- silnik in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From sȉla.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sîːlniːk/
- Hyphenation: sil‧nik
Noun
sȋlnīk m anim (Cyrillic spelling си̑лнӣк)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | sȋlnīk | sȋlnīci |
| genitive | silnika | silnika |
| dative | silniku | silnicima |
| accusative | silnika | silnike |
| vocative | sȋlnīče | silnici |
| locative | silniku | silnicima |
| instrumental | silnikom | silnicima |
References
- “silnik”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026