# departament
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from French département.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [də.pər.təˈmen]
* IPA: (Balearic) [də.pər.təˈment]
* IPA: (Valencia) [de.paɾ.taˈment]

### Noun

departament m (plural departaments)
* department

#### Derived terms

* departamental

### Further reading

* “departament” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “departament”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “departament” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “departament” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Kashubian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Polish departament.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dɛ.parˈta.mɛnt/
* Rhymes: -amɛnt
* Syllabification: de‧par‧ta‧ment

### Noun

departament m inan (related adjective departamentowi)
* department (organizational unit of a ministry or other central institution)
* (government) department (ministry in the USA and Canada)
* (administration) department (unit of administrative division in some countries)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* Jan Trepczyk (1994) “departament”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
* Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “departament”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎
* “departament”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

## Occitan
### Etymology

Borrowed from French département.

### Pronunciation

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### Noun

departament m (plural departaments)
* department

#### Derived terms

* departamental

### Further reading

* Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 223.

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French département. Sense 2 is a semantic loan from English department. First attested in 1763. Compare Silesian departamynt.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dɛ.parˈta.mɛnt/
* (Middle Polish) IPA: /dɛ.parˈta.mɛnt/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -amɛnt
* Syllabification: de‧par‧ta‧ment

### Noun

departament m inan (related adjective departamentowy or departamentalny)
* department (organizational unit of a ministry or other central institution)
* (government) department (ministry in the USA and Canada)
* (administration) department (unit of administrative division in some countries)
* (obsolete) department (separate part of a room)
* (obsolete) main court of Lithuania
* (obsolete) department; type, kind; category

#### Derived terms

* Departament Stanu

#### Descendants

* → Kashubian: departament

### References

* ↑ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “departament”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
* ↑ Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “departament”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
* ↑ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “departament”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
* ↑ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “departament”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
* ↑ Stanisław Konarski (1763) O skutecznym rad sposobie: albo, O utrzymywaniu ordynaryinych seymów‎ (in Polish), Wydawn. Komitetu Obchodu 150-tej Rocznicy Ustanowienia Komisji Edukacji Narodowej i Zgonu Stanislawa Konarskiego, page 191

### Further reading

* departament in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* departament in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “departament”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
* J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “departament”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 443

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French département.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /de.par.taˈment/

### Noun

departament n (plural departamente)
* department

#### Declension
### Further reading

* departament in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)