# sekretarz
## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French secrétaire. First attested in the 16th century. Compare Kashubian sekretôra.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɛˈkrɛ.taʂ/
* (Middle Polish) IPA: (16th c.) /sɛˈkrɛ.tɒr̝/, (17th–18th c.) /sɛˈkrɛ.tɒʂ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛtaʂ
* Syllabification: se‧kre‧tarz

### Noun

sekretarz m pers (female equivalent sekretarka, related adjective sekretarski)
* secretary (male person keeping records and handling clerical work)
* secretary (person who keeps records, takes notes and handles general clerical work)
* secretary (person who deals with organizational and administrative matters of an institution or organization)
* secretary (managerial or leading position in certain non-profit organizations, such as political parties, trade unions, international organizations)
* secretary (person who holds the highest position in a political organization)
* the highest-ranking local government official, who is the deputy of the city president, mayor, commune head or starosta
* (historical) an official who ran the royal office in former Poland
    Synonym: regent
* in medieval Poland, an honorary title formerly given by the king to scholars and writers
* (politics) secretary (head of a department of the government of the United States of America)
* (obsolete) report editor for a council
* (Middle Polish) confidant; secretary (person with whom one can keep secrets)
    Synonym: powiernik

#### Derived terms

* sekretarz stanu
* sekretarzować impf

### Noun

sekretarz m animal
* secretary bird (Sagittarius serpentarius)
    Synonym: wężojad
* (obsolete) a type of party game

#### Declension
### Noun

sekretarz m inan
* (obsolete) book of letter boilerplates

#### Declension
### Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), sekretarz is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 2 times in scientific texts, 123 times in news, 22 times in essays, 5 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 155 times, making it the 371st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

### References

* ↑ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “sekretarz”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
* ↑ Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “sekretarz”, 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) “sekretarz”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
* ↑ Ida Kurcz (1990) “sekretarz”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 523

### Further reading

* sekretarz in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* sekretarz in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* “SEKRETARZ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 22.10.2008
* Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “sekretarz”, in Słownik języka polskiego
* Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “sekretarz”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
* J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1915), “sekretarz”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 6, Warsaw, page 58