stopień

== Old Polish == === Etymology === Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stepenь, influenced by stopa. First attested in the middle of the 15th century. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /stɔpʲɛɲ/ IPA(key): (15th CE) /stɔpʲɛɲ/ === Noun === stopień m animacy unattested stair (a single step in a staircase) (attested in Greater Poland) foot (unit of measure approximately 33 centimeters long) (attested in Lesser Poland) degree (the amount that an entity possesses a certain property; relative intensity, extent) ==== Descendants ==== Polish: stopień Silesian: stopiyń === References === Boryś, Wiesław (2005), “stopień”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN Bożena Sieradzka-Baziur, et al., editors (2011–2015), “stopień”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN == Polish == === Etymology === Inherited from Old Polish stopień. The original Old Polish stem stopień- (genitive singular stopienia) was reanalyzed as stopń- (genitive singular stopnia). === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɔpjɛɲ Syllabification: sto‧pień === Noun === stopień m inan (abbreviation st.) (countable) stair (a single step in a staircase) Schody na wieżę mają 170 stopni. ― The stairs to the tower have 170 steps. Uważaj na stopień w połowie korytarza. ― Mind the step halfway down the corridor. (countable) degree, rank, level (place in a systemized hierarchy) Synonym: szczebel (countable, military) rank (a hierarchical level in an organization such as the military) Po powrocie z misji zagranicznej został awansowany do stopnia kapitana. ― After returning from a foreign deployment, he was promoted to the rank of captain. (education, formal) title, degree Uczelnia ma akredytację do nadawania stopnia doktora nauk medycznych. ― The university is accredited to award the title of M.D. (uncountable) degree (the amount that an entity possesses a certain property; relative intensity, extent) Synonyms: poziom, szczebel W jakim stopniu zmiana trenera wpłynęła na wyniki drużyny? ― To what degree were the team's results affected by the change of coach? (countable, education) mark, grade, score (review of performance) [with z (+ genitive) ‘in what subject’] W szkole zawsze miałam dobre stopnie. ― I always had good grades at school. (countable, physics) degree (a unit of measurement of temperature on any of several scales, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit) Jutro ma być dwanaście stopni. ― It's supposed to be twelve degrees tomorrow. (countable, geometry) degree (a unit of measurement of angle equal to 1⁄360 of a circle's circumference) Ta trasa nie jest zbyt trudna, ma nachylenie mniej niż 30 stopni. ― This route is not very hard, it has a slope of less than 30 degrees. (countable, linguistics, grammar) degree of comparison (a form of an adjective that indicates a different degree of the attribute the adjective denotes; like the positive, comparative and superlative forms) (countable, music) step (the interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale) (countable, geography) degree (a unit of measurement of latitude and longitude which together identify a location on the Earth's surface) (Przemyśl) level (horizontal bar of a butcher's box) ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== === Trivia === According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), stopień is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 93 times in scientific texts, 50 times in news, 71 times in essays, 19 times in fiction, and 9 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 242 times, making it the 223rd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words. === References === === Further reading === “stopień”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[6] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN “stopień”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[7] (in Polish) Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “stopień”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish] “STOPIEŃ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 4 November 2016 Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “stopień”, in Słownik języka polskiego Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “stopień”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861 J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1915), “stopień”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 6, Warsaw, page 434 Aleksander Saloni (1899), “stopień”, in “Lud wiejski w okolicy Przeworska”, in M. Arct, E. Lubowski, editors, Wisła : miesięcznik gieograficzno-etnograficzny‎[8] (in Polish), volume 13, Warsaw: Artur Gruszecki, page 245 (425)