Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish otcinek.Category:Polish terms derived from Old Polish#ODCINEKCategory:Polish terms derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic#ODCINEKCategory:Polish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *éti#ODCINEKCategory:Polish terms inherited from Old Polish#ODCINEKCategory:Polish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *temh₁-#ODCINEKCategory:Polish terms derived from Proto-Slavic#ODCINEKCategory:Polish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#ODCINEKCategory:Pages with etymology trees#ODCINEKCategory:Polish entries with etymology trees#ODCINEKCategory:Polish entries with etymology texts#ODCINEKCategory:Pages using etymon with no ID#ODCINEK By surface analysis, odcinać +‎ -ekCategory:Polish terms suffixed with -ek#ODCINEK. Compare Kashubian òdcynk. Sense 5 is a semantic loan from LatinCategory:Polish semantic loans from Latin#ODCINEKCategory:Polish terms derived from Latin#ODCINEK segmentum, coined by Jan ŚniadeckiCategory:Polish terms coined by Jan Śniadecki#ODCINEKCategory:Polish coinages#ODCINEK.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -inɛkCategory:Rhymes:Polish/inɛk#ODCINEKCategory:Rhymes:Polish/inɛk/3 syllables#ODCINEK
• Syllabification: od‧ci‧nek

Noun

odcinek m inan (diminutive odcineczek, related adjective odcinkowy)Category:Polish lemmas#ODCINEKCategory:Polish nouns#ODCINEKCategory:Polish entries with incorrect language header#ODCINEKCategory:Polish masculine nouns#ODCINEKCategory:Polish inanimate nouns#ODCINEKCategory:Pages with entries#ODCINEKCategory:Pages with 1 entry#ODCINEK

1. stretch, section, length, segment (part of something that is long; a physical piece of something; series of events seen as a length)
2. episode, part (installment of a story or work, e.g. a television show, serial book or magazine, or radio program)
3. section; slip (separate part of a document usually confirming a transaction)
4. (militaryCategory:pl:Military#ODCINEK) section (place of combat operations)
6. (geometryCategory:pl:Geometry#ODCINEK) segment (straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them; a line segment.)
7. job description; segment, part (tasks set before someone as part of their professional competences; separate part of an activity)
8. segment, cleft, clove (that which was pulled off or cut off from something)
   1. (Middle PolishCategory:Middle Polish#ODCINEK, horticultureCategory:pl:Horticulture#ODCINEK) graft (part subtracted from the mother plant intended for reproduction)
9. (PodhaleCategory:Podhale Polish#ODCINEK, orthographyCategory:pl:Orthography#ODCINEK) comma (punctuation mark ,)

   Synonym: przecinek

   Kie cytas, to na odcinkach trza stajać. ― When you read, you have to pause at commas.Category:Polish terms with usage examples#ODCINEK

10. (obsoleteCategory:Polish terms with obsolete senses#ODCINEK, orthographyCategory:pl:Orthography#ODCINEK) apostrophe (text character ’)

    Synonym: apostrof

11. (obsoleteCategory:Polish terms with obsolete senses#ODCINEK, in the plural) covered bonds

    Synonym: listy zastawne

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), odcinek is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 31 times in scientific texts, 6 times in news, 28 times in essays, 0 times in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 66 times, making it the 990th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[1]

References

Further reading

• “odcinek”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎ (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “odcinek”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎ (in Polish)
• Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “odcinek”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “odcinek”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “odcinek”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “odcinek”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 578
• Jan Karłowicz (1903), “odcinek”, in Hieronim Łopaciński, Wacław Taczanowski, editors, Słownik gwar polskich [Dictionary of Polish dialects] (in Polish), volume 3: L do O, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 393
• odcinek in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego