organizm

See also: òrganizm, and ôrganizm

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French organisme. By surface analysis, organ +‎ -izm. First attested in 1805. Compare Silesian ôrganizm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔrˈɡa.ɲizm/

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• Rhymes: -aɲizm
• Syllabification: or‧ga‧nizm

Noun

organizm m inan

1. (biology) organism (discrete and complete living thing, such as animal, plant, fungus or microorganism)

   Synonyms: jednostka, osobnik

2. body (physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism)

   Synonym: ciało

3. organism (something with many separate interdependent parts)

   Synonym: twór

Declension

Declension of organizm

	singular	plural
nominative	organizm	organizmy
genitive	organizmu	organizmów
dative	organizmowi	organizmom
accusative	organizm	organizmy
instrumental	organizmem	organizmami
locative	organizmie	organizmach
vocative	organizmie	organizmy

Descendants

• → Kashubian: òrganizm

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), organizm is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 51 times in scientific texts, 4 times in news, 4 times in essays, 5 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 67 times, making it the 967th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

Further reading

• organizm in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• organizm in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “organizm”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “organizm”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 827

Uzbek

Noun

organizm (plural organizmlar)

1. organism