teoria

Borrowed from Latin theōria, from Ancient Greek θεωρία (theōría).

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teoria f (plural teories)

1. theory

• en teoria
• teoria de cordes
• teoria dels jocs

• teòric
• teorètic

• “teoria”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From teorio +‎ -a.

• IPA^(key): /teoˈria/
• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: te‧o‧ri‧a

teoria (accusative singular teorian, plural teoriaj, accusative plural teoriajn)

1. theoretical

From Late Latin theōria, from Ancient Greek θεωρία (theōría).

• IPA^(key): /ˈteoriɑ/, [ˈt̪e̞o̞ˌriɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -iɑ
• Syllabification^(key): te‧o‧ri‧a
• Hyphenation^(key): teo‧ria

teoria

1. theory

   teoria lajien synnystä ― the theory of the origin of species

• teoreema
• teoreetikko
• teoreettinen

• “teoria”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• IPA^(key): /te.oˈri.a/
• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: te‧o‧rì‧a
• Rhymes: -ia

teoria f (plural teorie)

1. theory

   Antonym: pratica

• teoretico
• teorico
• teorizzare

• aiterò, oriate, otarie, rotaie, roteai, toreai

From Latin theōria, from Ancient Greek θεωρία (theōría).

• IPA^(key): /te.u.ˈri.ɐ/

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teoria f (plural teorias)

1. theory

• teoryja (Middle Polish)
• teorya (pre-reform orthography (1816))
• teorja (pre-reform orthography (1936))

Borrowed from French théorie.^[1][2] First attested in 1765.^[3]

• IPA^(key): /tɛˈɔ.rja/

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• Rhymes: -ɔrja
• Syllabification: te‧o‧ria

teoria f (diminutive teoryjka)

1. (countable, sciences) theory (a coherent statement or set of ideas that explains observed facts or phenomena and correctly predicts new facts or phenomena not previously observed, or which sets out the laws and principles of something known or observed; a hypothesis confirmed by observation, experiment etc)
2. (countable) theory (someone's personal view on something)

   Synonym: pogląd

3. (uncountable) theory (branch of a specific scientific discipline that deals with the basic concepts and principles of that discipline)
4. (countable) theory ((informal) A hypothesis or conjecture)

   Synonym: przypuszczenie

5. (uncountable) theory (the underlying principles or methods of a given technical skill, art etc., as opposed to its practice)
6. (obsolete, Ancient Greece) sending of state-ambassadors

• → Kashubian: teorëjô

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), teoria is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 37 times in scientific texts, 1 time in news, 25 times in essays, 6 times in fiction, and 5 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 74 times, making it the 874th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[4]

• teoria in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• teoria in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “teorya”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “teorja”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “teorja”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 46

• theoria (obsolete)

Borrowed from Late Latin theōria (“theory”), from Ancient Greek θεωρία (theōría, “contemplation; speculation; a looking at; things looked at”), from θεωρέω (theōréō, “to look at, to view, to consider, to examine”), from θεωρός (theōrós, “spectator”).

• Hyphenation: te‧o‧ri‧a

teoria f (plural teorias)

1. (sciences) theory (coherent set of statements attempting to explain observed phenomena)
2. theory (unproven conjecture)

   Synonyms: conjectura, hipótese, ideia, suposição

3. theory (underlying principles as opposed to practice)

   Antonym: prática

4. (rare) host (collective term for angels)

   Synonym: hoste