ryga
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian riga. Doublet of rej.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɘɡa
- Syllabification: ry‧ga
- Homophone: Ryga
Noun
ryga f
- (dated, Warsaw) grid paper (sheets of paper with an outline grid of lines used for plotting graphs)
- Synonym: liniuszek
- (typography) blank material
- Hypernym: justunek
- (archaic) line, row (path through two or more points; a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight)
Declension
Declension of ryga
Further reading
- ryga in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- ryga in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- ryga in PWN's encyclopedia
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “RYGA”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “rygor”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna