preliminaria

== Polish == === Alternative forms === preliminarja (pre-reform orthography (1936)) === Etymology === Internationalism; possibly borrowed from British English preliminaries, French préliminaires, or German Präliminarien, ultimately from Latin praelīmināris. First attested in 1732. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -arja Syllabification: pre‧li‧mi‧na‧ria === Noun === preliminaria nvir pl (related adjective preliminaryjny or preliminarny) (historical) preliminaries (preliminary peace talks conducted by parties in armed conflict with each other) (historical) preliminaries (preliminary agreements signed between parties that were previously in armed conflict) (literary) preliminaries (something that precedes something) [with do (+ genitive) ‘to what’] (literary) preliminaries (basic information in a given field of knowledge) [with do (+ genitive) ‘to what’] Synonyms: prolegomena, propedeutyka, wprowadzenie, wstęp ==== Declension ==== === References === === Further reading === “preliminaria”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN “preliminaria”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[4] (in Polish) A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “preliminarja”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 993 preliminaria in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego