sekretarz

== Polish == === Etymology === Borrowed from French secrétaire. First attested in the 16th century. Compare Kashubian sekretôra. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɛtaʂ Syllabification: se‧kre‧tarz === Noun === sekretarz m pers (female equivalent sekretarka, related adjective sekretarski) secretary (male person keeping records and handling clerical work) secretary (person who keeps records, takes notes and handles general clerical work) secretary (person who deals with organizational and administrative matters of an institution or organization) secretary (managerial or leading position in certain non-profit organizations, such as political parties, trade unions, international organizations) secretary (person who holds the highest position in a political organization) the highest-ranking local government official, who is the deputy of the city president, mayor, commune head or starosta (historical) an official who ran the royal office in former Poland Synonym: regent in medieval Poland, an honorary title formerly given by the king to scholars and writers (politics) secretary (head of a department of the government of the United States of America) (obsolete) report editor for a council (Middle Polish) confidant; secretary (person with whom one can keep secrets) Synonym: powiernik ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Noun === sekretarz m animal secretary bird (Sagittarius serpentarius) Synonym: wężojad (obsolete) a type of party game ==== Declension ==== === Noun === sekretarz m inan (obsolete) book of letter boilerplates ==== Declension ==== === Trivia === According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), sekretarz is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 2 times in scientific texts, 123 times in news, 22 times in essays, 5 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 155 times, making it the 371st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words. === References === === Further reading === “sekretarz”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN “sekretarz”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[4] (in Polish) “SEKRETARZ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 22.10.2008 Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “sekretarz”, in Słownik języka polskiego Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “sekretarz”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861 J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1915), “sekretarz”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 6, Warsaw, page 58