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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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sesja f (diminutive sesyjka, related adjective sesyjny)

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

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Kashubian: sesëjô
  • Silesian: sesyjŏ

Trivia

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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

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  1. ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “sesja”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “sesja”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
  4. ^ 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]
  5. ^ 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

Further reading

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