ojciec
Appearance
See also: ôjciec
Polish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish ociec (genitive oćca > Polish ojca) The additional j in the nominative is by analogy with the oblique stem.[1][2]
Pronunciation
- (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈɔj.t͡ɕɛt͡s/
- (Greater Poland):
- (Masovia):
- (Far Masovian) IPA(key): /ˈɔj.t͡ɕɛt͡s/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ɔjt͡ɕɛt͡s
- Syllabification: oj‧ciec
Noun
ojciec m pers (diminutive ojczulek, augmentative ojczysko, abbreviation o. or oo.)
- father (human male who begets a child)
- father (animal male that begets a child)
- (figurative) father (person who instigates something)
- Synonym: twórca
- (Christianity) father (member of a church council)
- (Christianity) term of address for a priest; father
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:ksiądz
- term of address for a man; father
- (chiefly in the plural) father (ancestory)
- (obsolete, endearing) protector
- Synonym: opiekun
- (obsolete or dialectal, Kuyavia, in the plural, Far Masovian) parents
- Synonym: rodzice
- (obsolete, games) type of party game
- (obsolete, theater) great actor
- (obsolete) starost
- Synonym: starosta
- (Middle Polish) hermit
- Synonym: pustelnik
- (Middle Polish, Christianity) father (the Pope)
- Synonym: papież
- (Middle Polish, Christianity) patron
- Synonym: patron
- (Middle Polish, theology) scholar, theological writer (expert in the history of the Church and religion)
Declension
Declension of ojciec
Derived terms
adjectives
interjection
proverb
nouns
phrase
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), ojciec is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 17 times in scientific texts, 13 times in news, 5 times in essays, 87 times in fiction, and 116 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 238 times, making it the 229th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]
References
- ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “ojciec”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
- ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “ociec”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “ojciec”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 328
Further reading
- ojciec in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- ojciec in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “ojciec”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- “OJCIEC”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 2013 October 17
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “ojciec”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “ojciec”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “ojciec”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 724
- Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “ojciec”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna
- ojciec in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
- Oskar Kolberg (1867) “ojciec”, in Dzieła wszystkie: Kujawy (in Polish), page 274
- Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894) “ojce”, in Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 117
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- Rhymes:Polish/ɔjt͡ɕɛt͡s
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