silnik

Polish

Etymology

From siła +‎ -nik. First attested in 1836.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɕil.ɲik/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ilɲik
  • Syllabification: sil‧nik

Noun

silnik m inan (diminutive silniczek, related adjective silnikowy)

  1. engine (the part of a car or other vehicle which provides the force for motion, now especially one powered by internal combustion)
    Synonym: motor
  2. (computing) engine (a software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task (usually with qualifying word))

Declension
Declension of silnik
singular plural
nominative silnik silniki
genitive silnika silników
dative silnikowi silnikom
accusative silnik silniki
instrumental silnikiem silnikami
locative silniku silnikach
vocative silniku silniki

Derived terms
nouns
  • pojemność skokowa silnika
  • silnik rozbiega się
adjectives

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), silnik is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 93 times in scientific texts, 9 times in news, 4 times in essays, 6 times in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 113 times, making it the 545th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References
  1. Tygodnik Rolniczo-Technologiczny (in Polish), volume 2, number 47, 1836 November 18, page 372
  2. Ida Kurcz (1990) “silnik”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 528

Further reading

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From sȉla.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /sîːlniːk/
  • Hyphenation: sil‧nik

Noun

sȋlnīk m (Cyrillic spelling си̑лнӣк)

  1. potentate

Declension
Declension of silnik
singular plural
nominative sȋlnīk sȋlnīci
genitive silnika silnika
dative silniku silnicima
accusative silnika silnike
vocative sȋlnīče silnici
locative silniku silnicima
instrumental silnikom silnicima

References
  • “silnik” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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