sesja

Polish

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Alternative forms

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sessiō.^[1]^[2]^[3] First attested in the 16th century.^[4]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.sja/
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -ɛsja
Syllabification: se‧sja

Noun

sesja f (diminutive sesyjka, related adjective sesyjny)

session (period devoted to a particular activity)
session (meeting of a council, court, school, or legislative body to conduct its business)
Synonyms: kolokwium, okres, sympozjum
session; photo shoot, jam session (meeting for shooting pictures or recording or playing music)
(education) exam (period of time when students take a test, especially at the end of a semester or year)
(economics) session (period of operation of the stock market)
(computing) certain amount of data written on a CD or DVD at one time (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)

Declension

Declension of sesja

	singular	plural
nominative	sesja	sesje
genitive	sesji	sesji/sesyj (archaic)
dative	sesji	sesjom
accusative	sesję	sesje
instrumental	sesją	sesjami
locative	sesji	sesjach
vocative	sesjo	sesje

Descendants

→ Kashubian: sesëjô
→ Silesian: sesyjŏ

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), sesja is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 1 time in scientific texts, 40 times in news, 39 times in essays, 1 time in fiction, and 0 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 81 times, making it the 794th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[5]

References

^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “sesja”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
^ Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “sesja”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language]‎^[1] (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
^ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “sesja”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “sessyja”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “sesja”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 524