ogromny

== Polish == === Alternative forms === ohromny (Middle Polish) ogrómny (Far Masovian, Przasnysz) === Etymology === From ogrom + -ny. First attested in 1558. Compare Czech ohromný. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɔmnɘ Syllabification: o‧grom‧ny === Adjective === ogromny (comparative ogromniejszy, superlative najogromniejszy, derived adverb ogromnie) immense, huge (very large, intense, or broad) Synonyms: see Thesaurus:duży (Western Kraków, Sławków) rich; powerful kupiec ogromny ― rich merchant (Middle Polish) wonderful; grand (Middle Polish) very loud; thunderous (Middle Polish) terrifying (causing fear) (Middle Polish) off-putting; ugly (Middle Polish) shameful, unworthy ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Kashubian: ògromny → Silesian: ôgrōmny === Trivia === According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), ogromny is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 23 times in scientific texts, 19 times in news, 33 times in essays, 15 times in fiction, and 9 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 99 times, making it the 637th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words. === References === === Further reading === “ogromny”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN “ogromny”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[3] (in Polish) Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “ogromny”, in Słownik języka polskiego Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “ogromny”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861 J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “ogromny”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 720 Jan Karłowicz (1903), “ogromny”, in Hieronim Łopaciński, Wacław Taczanowski, editors, Słownik gwar polskich [Dictionary of Polish dialects] (in Polish), volume 3: L do O, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 421