agencja

== Polish == === Alternative forms === agencyja (Middle Polish) agencya (pre-reform orthography (1816)) agiencja (obsolete) === Etymology === Borrowed from Austrian German Agentie, from Medieval Latin agēntia. First attested in 1676. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /aˈɡɛn.t͡sja/ Rhymes: -ɛnt͡sja Syllabification: a‧gen‧cja === Noun === agencja f (related adjective agencyjny) agency (company that performs various tasks) agency (association that finds work for actors or other public people) agency (department or other administrative unit of a government) (Middle Polish) representation of someone's business or interest ==== Declension ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Collocations ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Kashubian: agencjô → Silesian: agyncyjŏ === Trivia === According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), agencja is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 0 times in scientific texts, 68 times in news, 6 times in essays, 1 time in fiction, and 176 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling times, making it the 846th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words. === References === === Further reading === agencja in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN agencja in Polish dictionaries at PWN Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “agencja”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861 J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “agiencja”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 12