sekretarz

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French secrétaire. First attested in the 16th century. Compare Kashubian sekretôra.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sɛˈkrɛ.taʂ/

• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): (16^th c.) /sɛˈkrɛ.tɒr̝/, (17^th–18^th c.) /sɛˈkrɛ.tɒʂ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛtaʂ
• Syllabification: se‧kre‧tarz

Noun

sekretarz m pers (female equivalent sekretarka, related adjective sekretarski)

1. secretary (male person keeping records and handling clerical work)
2. secretary (person who keeps records, takes notes and handles general clerical work)
3. secretary (person who deals with organizational and administrative matters of an institution or organization)
4. secretary (managerial or leading position in certain non-profit organizations, such as political parties, trade unions, international organizations)
5. secretary (person who holds the highest position in a political organization)
6. the highest-ranking local government official, who is the deputy of the city president, mayor, commune head or starosta
7. (historical) an official who ran the royal office in former Poland

   Synonym: regent

8. in medieval Poland, an honorary title formerly given by the king to scholars and writers
9. (politics) secretary (head of a department of the government of the United States of America)
10. (obsolete) report editor for a council
11. (Middle Polish) confidant; secretary (person with whom one can keep secrets)

    Synonym: powiernik

Declension

Declension of sekretarz

	singular	plural
nominative	sekretarz	sekretarze
genitive	sekretarza	sekretarzy
dative	sekretarzowi	sekretarzom
accusative	sekretarza	sekretarzy
instrumental	sekretarzem	sekretarzami
locative	sekretarzu	sekretarzach
vocative	sekretarzu	sekretarze

Derived terms

nouns

• sekretarz stanu

 

verbs

• sekretarzować impf

 

Noun

sekretarz m animal

1. secretary bird (Sagittarius serpentarius)

   Synonym: wężojad

2. (obsolete) a type of party game

Declension

Declension of sekretarz

	singular	plural
nominative	sekretarz	sekretarze
genitive	sekretarza	sekretarzy
dative	sekretarzowi	sekretarzom
accusative	sekretarza	sekretarze
instrumental	sekretarzem	sekretarzami
locative	sekretarzu	sekretarzach
vocative	sekretarzu	sekretarze

Noun

sekretarz m inan

1. (obsolete) book of letter boilerplates

Declension

Declension of sekretarz

	singular	plural
nominative	sekretarz	sekretarze
genitive	sekretarza	sekretarzy
dative	sekretarzowi	sekretarzom
accusative	sekretarza	sekretarze
instrumental	sekretarzem	sekretarzami
locative	sekretarzu	sekretarzach
vocative	sekretarzu	sekretarze

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), sekretarz is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 2 times in scientific texts, 123 times in news, 22 times in essays, 5 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 155 times, making it the 371st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

Further reading

• sekretarz in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• sekretarz in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• “SEKRETARZ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku, 22.10.2008
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “sekretarz”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “sekretarz”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1915), “sekretarz”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 6, Warsaw, page 58