okres

== Czech == === Etymology === Borrowed from Polish okres. First attested in the 18th century. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈokrɛs] === Noun === okres m inan district (administrative division) ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== See also ==== obvod okrsek === Further reading === “okres”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957 “okres”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989 “okres”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026 == Polish == === Alternative forms === okrys (Middle Polish) === Etymology === Deverbal from okresić (modern określić). The word originally meant only confine but gained additional meanings by translating period from various languages. First attested in 1564. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɔkrɛs Syllabification: o‧kres === Noun === okres m inan period (a length of time) Synonyms: czas, długość, moment, period, pora period (a length of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era) Synonym: epoka period (the length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition of a wave or the rotation of a planet) period (each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity) Synonyms: półrocze, semestr (euphemistic) period (female menstruation; an episode of this) Synonyms: ciota, ciotka, menstruacja, miesiączka, period (rhetoric) period (a complete sentence, especially one expressing a single thought or making a balanced, rhythmic whole) (mathematics) period (the length of an interval over which a periodic function, periodic sequence or repeating decimal repeats; often the least such length) okres ułamka ― repetend (music) period (two phrases (an antecedent and a consequent phrase)) (geology) period (a geochronologic unit of millions to tens of millions of years; a subdivision of an era, and subdivided into epochs) ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== === Trivia === According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), okres is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 146 times in scientific texts, 69 times in news, 109 times in essays, 14 times in fiction, and 8 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 346 times, making it the 145th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words. === References === === Further reading === okres in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN okres in Polish dictionaries at PWN Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “okres”, in Słownik języka polskiego Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “okres”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861 J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “okres”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 750 == Slovak == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈɔkres] === Noun === okres m inan (relational adjective okresný) district, region, county ==== Declension ==== ==== See also ==== oblasť okruh kraj región === Further reading === “okres”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026