silnik

From siła +‎ -nik. First attested in 1836.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈɕil.ɲik/

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• Rhymes: -ilɲik
• Syllabification: sil‧nik

silnik m inan (diminutive silniczek, related adjective silnikowy)

1. engine (the part of a car or other vehicle which provides the force for motion, now especially one powered by internal combustion)

   Synonym: motor

2. (computing) engine (a software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task (usually with qualifying word))

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), silnik is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 93 times in scientific texts, 9 times in news, 4 times in essays, 6 times in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 113 times, making it the 545th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[2]

• silnik in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• silnik in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1915), “silnik”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 6, Warsaw, page 113
• silnik in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

From sȉla.

• IPA^(key): /sîːlniːk/
• Hyphenation: sil‧nik

sȋlnīk m anim (Cyrillic spelling си̑лнӣк)

1. potentate

• “silnik”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025