biuro

== Polish == === Alternative forms === bioro (Middle Polish) bióro (obsolete) === Etymology === Borrowed from French bureau. First attested in 1638. Compare Kashubian bióro and Silesian biyrŏ / biōrŏ. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -urɔ Syllabification: biu‧ro === Noun === biuro n (related adjective biurowy) office, agency (building of work for an institution) office, agency (room in such a building) office, agency (people working in such a building or room) (obsolete) desk (furniture used for working) Synonym: biurko ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Collocations ==== === Trivia === According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), biuro is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 0 times in scientific texts, 37 times in news, 31 times in essays, 3 times in fiction, and 10 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 81 times, making it the 788th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words. === References === === Further reading === biuro in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN biuro in Polish dictionaries at PWN Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “bióro”, in Słownik języka polskiego Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “biuro”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861 J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “biuro”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 159