budownictwo

Polish

Etymology

From budownik +‎ -stwo.[1] First attested in 1598.[2] Compare Kashubian bùdownictwò, Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), and Ukrainian будівни́цтво (budivnýctvo).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /bu.dɔvˈɲit͡s.tfɔ/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /bu.dɔvˈɲit͡s.tfɔ/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -it͡stfɔ
  • Syllabification: bu‧dow‧nic‧two

Noun

budownictwo n

  1. building, construction (art,study, or economy of constructing)
  2. development (collection of buildings in a given area)
    Synonym: zabudowa
  3. building design, architecture (art and science of designing and managing the construction of buildings and other structures)
    Synonym: architektura

Declension

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), budownictwo is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 16 times in scientific texts, 24 times in news, 91 times in essays, 1 time in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 133 times, making it the 452nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]

References
  1. Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “budownictwo”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. “budownictwo”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish], 2010-2023
  3. Ida Kurcz (1990), “budownictwo”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 37

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