temat

See also: témát

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰédʰeh₁ti
Ancient Greek τῐ́θημῐ (tĭ́thēmĭ)
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
Ancient Greek θέμα (théma)bor.
Latin themalbor.
Polish temat

    Learned borrowing from Latin thema.[1] First attested in the 19th century.[2] Compare Kashubian téma and Silesian tymat.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈtɛ.mat/
    • Audio:(file)
    • Rhymes: -ɛmat
    • Syllabification: te‧mat

    Noun

    temat m inan (diminutive temacik, related adjective tematowy or tematyczny)

    1. subject (main topic)
      Synonym: przedmiot
    2. (linguistics) theme, topic (what is generally being talked about)
      Coordinate term: remat
    3. (grammar) stem (part of a word invariant under inflection)
      Synonym: rdzeń
    4. (music) theme (main melody of a piece of music)
      Synonym: motyw
    5. (chess) base idea on which a chess task is based (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)

    Declension

    Declension of temat
    singular plural
    nominative temat tematy
    genitive tematu tematów
    dative tematowi tematom
    accusative temat tematy
    instrumental tematem tematami
    locative temacie tematach
    vocative temacie tematy

    Derived terms

    nouns
    adjectives
    adverbs
    • tematowo
    • tematycznie
    nouns

    Trivia

    According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), temat is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 21 times in scientific texts, 57 times in news, 45 times in essays, 25 times in fiction, and 12 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 160 times, making it the 363rd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]

    References

    1. ^ Dubisz, Stanisław, editor (2003), “temat”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal Dictionary of the Polish Language]‎[1] (in Polish), volumes 1–4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, →ISBN, →OCLC
    2. ^ J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “temat”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 41
    3. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “temat”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[2] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 599

    Further reading

    • temat in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
    • temat in Polish dictionaries at PWN
    • temat in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

    Swedish

    Noun

    temat

    1. definite singular of tema

    Anagrams

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