czynnik

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Etymology[edit]

From czynić +‎ -nik.[1] First attested in 1782.[2]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʂɨn.ɲik/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɨnɲik
  • Syllabification: czyn‧nik

Noun[edit]

czynnik m inan

  1. factor (one of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result)
    Synonym: faktor
  2. (literary) factor (group of people affecting something)
  3. (mathematics) factor (any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole)

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Descendants[edit]

  • Kashubian: czinnik

Trivia[edit]

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), czynnik is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 55 times in scientific texts, 2 times in news, 30 times in essays, 2 times in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 90 times, making it the 706th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “czynnik”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. ^ Simon Antoine Jean L'Huillier (1782) Algiebra dla szkół narodowych (in Polish), page 8
  3. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “czynnik”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 65

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