konferencja

See also: konferencją

Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin cōnferentia／cōnferēns[1][2] under influence of French conférence and German Konferenz.[1][3][4]

Compare Kashubian kònferencjô and Silesian kōnferyncyjŏ.

Further compare Italian conferenza, English conference, and Russian конфере́нция (konferéncija).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kɔn.fɛˈrɛn.t͡sja/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛnt͡sja
  • Syllabification: kon‧fe‧ren‧cja

Noun

konferencja f (diminutive konferencyjka, related adjective konferencyjny)

  1. conference (gathering of representatives to talk on a particular subject)
  2. (religion) conference (stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters)
  3. (sports, proscribed) conference (group of sports teams that play each other on a regular basis)
  4. conference pear (cultivar of Pyrus communis)
    Hypernym: gruszka
  5. (obsolete) reading, lecture (session of reading something)
    Synonyms: odczyt, prelekcja

Declension

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Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), konferencja is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 5 times in scientific texts, 85 times in news, 25 times in essays, 2 times in fiction, and 0 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 120 times, making it the 501st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[5]

References
  1. Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “konferencja”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “konferencja”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
  3. Mirosław Bańko; Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021), “konferencja”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
  4. Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “konferencja”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
  5. Ida Kurcz (1990), “konferencja”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 189

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