wysokość

== Old Polish == === Etymology === From wysoki + -ość. First attested in the second half of the 14th century. Compare Old Czech vysokost and Old Slovak vysokosť. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /visɔkɔɕt͡ɕʲ/ IPA(key): (15th CE) /visɔkɔɕt͡ɕʲ/ === Noun === wysokość f height (distance from the base of something to the top of said thing) (attested in Lesser Poland) tall wave (attested in Lesser Poland) arrogance (figurative, attested in Lesser Poland) wealth (large accumulation of property) mistranslation of Latin altitūdō (“depth”) (attested in Lesser Poland, Sieradz-Łęczyca) hill (small raising of land) (attested in Greater Poland) mountain fortress (hold in a mountain) (attested in Lesser Poland) peak, top, vertex (attested in Lesser Poland, Sieradz-Łęczyca) height (place located high above the earth; especially as a place considered to be the seat of God; heaven; skies) (attested in Lesser Poland, Sieradz-Łęczyca) magnificence, perfection, dignity (attested in Lesser Poland) authority, power (attested in Greater Poland) The meaning of this term is uncertain. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Polish: wysokość Silesian: wysokość === References === Bożena Sieradzka-Baziur, et al., editors (2011–2015), “wysokość”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN Ewa Deptuchowa, et al., editors (2023), “wysokość”, in Rozariusze z polskimi glosami. Internetowa baza danych [Dictionaries of Polish glosses, an Internet database] (in Polish), Kraków: Pracownia Języka Staropolskiego Instytut Języka Polskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk == Polish == === Etymology === Inherited from Old Polish wysokość. By surface analysis, wysoki +‎ -ość. Compare Czech vysokost, Kashubian wësokòsc, and Russian высо́кость (vysókostʹ). === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɔkɔɕt͡ɕ Syllabification: wy‧so‧kość === Noun === wysokość f (related adjective wysokościowy) height (distance from the base of something to the top of said thing) height (distance from the base of something to a chosen point) height, altitude (distance from the surface of the Earth) Synonym: poziom highness (size or intensity of something, especially of a figure on a scale) Synonym: wielkość (music) highness; pitch (trait of a sound resulting from a high frequency; perceived frequency of a sound) (mathematics) height (amplitude of a sine function) highness; grandiloquence, sublimity Synonyms: górnolotność, wzniosłość ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Trivia === According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wysokość is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 59 times in scientific texts, 19 times in news, 19 times in essays, 5 times in fiction, and 5 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 107 times, making it the 584th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words. === References === === Further reading === “wysokość”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[9] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN “wysokość”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[10] (in Polish) Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “wysokość”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish] “WYSOKOŚĆ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 19.08.2009 Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “wysokość”, in Słownik języka polskiego Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “wysokość”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861 J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “wysokość”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 1039 == Silesian == === Etymology === Inherited from Old Polish wysokość. By surface analysis, wysoki +‎ -ość. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /vɪˈsɔ.kɔɕt͡ɕ/ Rhymes: -ɔkɔɕt͡ɕ Syllabification: wy‧so‧kość === Noun === wysokość f height ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === wysokość in silling.org