sejmik

English

Etymology

From Polish sejmik.

Noun

sejmik (plural sejmiks or sejmiki)

1. (historical) A local or regional parliament in Poland; a dietine.
   • 2018, Robert I. Frost, The Oxford History of Poland-Lithuania, volume 1:

     Forced to raise extraordinary taxes for the Thirteen Years' War, Casimir called general assemblies that were in effect meetings of his council, but their decisions were not seen as binding on the districts until ratified by the provincial sejmiks.

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish sejmik. By surface analysis, sejm +‎ -ik.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛj.mik/

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• Rhymes: -ɛjmik
• Syllabification: sej‧mik

Noun

sejmik m inan (related adjective sejmikowy)

1. (government) sejmik (regional assembly for each of the sixteen voivodeships of Poland)
   1. sejmik (total number of people who sit in a sejmik)
2. (government, historical) sejmik (local or regional parliament in the Kingdom of Poland or the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)

   Hypernym: zjazd

   1. (historical) sejmik (total number of people who sit in a sejmik in the Kingdom of Poland or the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)
3. (figurative) tumultuous, noisy gathering

   Hypernym: zebranie

4. (ornithology) parliament (large flock of birds gathering in one place before flying off to warm countries)

   Synonym: sejm

Declension

Declension of sejmik

	singular	plural
nominative	sejmik	sejmiki
genitive	sejmiku	sejmików
dative	sejmikowi	sejmikom
accusative	sejmik	sejmiki
instrumental	sejmikiem	sejmikami
locative	sejmiku	sejmikach
vocative	sejmiku	sejmiki

Derived terms

noun

• sejmikowicz

 

verb

• sejmikować impf

 

Related terms

adjective

• sejmowy

 

nouns

• sejm
• Sejm
• sejmikujący
• sejmokracja
• sejmowładztwo
• sejmujący

 

verb

• sejmować impf

 

Further reading

• sejmik in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• sejmik in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• sejmik in PWN's encyclopedia