Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɛsja/
- 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
More information singular, plural ...
|
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 |
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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
Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “sesja”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
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
Further reading
- sesja in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- sesja in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- “SESYJA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 26.10.2008
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “sesja”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “sesja”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1915), “sesja”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 6, Warsaw, page 77