zasada

 

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Deverbal from zasadzić.^[1][2] First attested in the 16th century.^[3] Compare Czech zásada, Slovak zásada, and Russian заса́да (zasáda).

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• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: za‧sa‧da
• Homophone: Zasada

zasada f (diminutive (rare) zasadka, related adjective zasadowy)

1. law; natural law (rule according to which things operate)

   Synonyms: prawidło, prawo

2. rule, principle (rule according to which something is constructed or works)
3. rule (way of proceeding in given circumstances, in a given area of life, sanctioned by law)

   Synonyms: norma, obyczaj, prawo, reguła, rygor

4. rule (manner; habit of conduct considered by a given person or a given environment to be good and worthy of use, binding)

   Synonyms: filozofia, klucz, mechanizm, system

5. (chemistry) base (any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds, having bitter taste, that turn red litmus blue, and react with acids to form salts)

   Synonym: alkalia

   Coordinate term: kwas

6. (obsolete, originally) foundation, principle, base (that which is at the base)

   Synonyms: fundament, podstawa

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), zasada is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 71 times in scientific texts, 28 times in news, 72 times in essays, 9 times in fiction, and 11 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 191 times, making it the 298th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[4]

• zasada in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• zasada in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “zasada”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “zasada”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1927), “zasada”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 8, Warsaw, page 260

Borrowed from Czech zásada.

zȃsada f (Cyrillic spelling за̑сада)

1. (dated) principle, rule

zasada (Cyrillic spelling засада)

1. Alternative form of zàsad

• “zasada”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024