dwudziestokątny

Polish

Etymology

From dwudziestokąt + -ny. First attested in 1822.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dvu.d͡ʑɛs.tɔˈkɔn.tnɨ/
  • Rhymes: -ɔntnɨ
  • Syllabification: dwu‧dzies‧to‧kąt‧ny

Adjective

dwudziestokątny (not comparable)

  1. (relational, architecture, geometry, rare) icosagonal, twenty-sided
    • Kurjer Codzienny, volume 18, issue 95, 1882, page 4: “Od Ordynackiej stanie mianowicie dom z kolumnadą i pomieści restauracyą, bufety, i salony zabaw, cyrk zajmie środek placu a będzie dwudziestokątny z czterema fasadami. [From Ordynacka street there's namely a house with a colonnade and it will house a restaurant, buffets, and playrooms, the circus will occupy the middle of the square and will be twenty-sided with four facades.]”
    • Gazeta Narodowa, volume 52, issue 119, 1912, page 1: “Na kwadratowej podstawie wznosi się jedna nad drugą 5 dwudziestokątnych teras, których ściany w całości pokryte płaskorzeźbami i bogatymi ornamentami. [5 twenty-sided terraces rise up on a square base one above the other, whose walls are entirely covered with bas-reliefs and rich ornamentations.]”

Declension

References

  1. Florianus Bobrowski (1822) Lexicon latino-polonicum. Slownik lacinskopolski, page 1213

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