adwokat

Elfdalian

Etymology

From Swedish advokat.

Noun

adwokat m

  1. advocate, solicitor

Declension

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Polish

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin advocātus.[1][2] Sense 2 is a semantic loan from German Advokat and French avocat.[1] Doublet of wójt (“government clerk, overlord”). First attested in 1559.[3]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /adˈvɔ.kat/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /adˈvɔ.kɒt/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔkat
  • Syllabification: ad‧wo‧kat

Noun

adwokat m pers (female equivalent adwokatka, diminutive adwokacik)

  1. (law) advocate, attorney, barrister, solicitor, lawyer, counsel
    Synonym: prawnik
  2. (figuratively) advocate (person who speaks in support of something)
    Synonym: rzecznik
    adwokat dziecka ― children's advocate
    adwokat biednych ― advocate for the poor
    adwokat jakiejś sprawy ― advocate of some issue
    adwokat interesów krajowych ― advocate of national interests
  3. (Middle Polish) government clerk exercising jurisdictional authority
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Etymology 2

Borrowed from Dutch advocaat.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /adˈvɔ.kat/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔkat
  • Syllabification: ad‧wo‧kat

Noun

adwokat m inan

  1. advocaat
    Synonyms: ajerkoniak, jajecznik
    butelka adwokata ― bottle of advocaat
    kieliszek adwokata ― glass of advocaat
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Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), adwokat is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 0 times in scientific texts, 3 times in news, 6 times in essays, 8 times in fiction, and 4 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 21 times, making it the 2768th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[4]

References

  1. Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “adwokat”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “adwokat”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
  3. Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “adwokat”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  4. Ida Kurcz (1990) “adwokat”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 2

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