retorycznej

Retorycznej is not a standalone lexical item in Polish, but the feminine inflected form of the adjective retoryczny, meaning relating to rhetoric or rhetorical. In Polish, adjectives agree with the gender, number, and case of the nouns they modify, so retoryczny becomes retoryczna in the feminine nominative, and retorycznej in the genitive, dative, or locative singular. The form retorycznej therefore appears in phrases where a feminine noun is in one of these cases.

The term belongs to the domain of rhetoric and its linguistic description. It is commonly found in academic and stylistic contexts when discussing rhetorical devices, strategies, or styles. For example, retorycznej może mowy (of a rhetorical speech) or rola retorycznej strategii (the role of a rhetorical strategy) illustrate how the form is used to agree with feminine nouns in genitive constructions. Likewise, in expressions like stylistyka retorycznej argumentacji, the adjective again adapts to the case of the feminine noun argumentacji.

Etymology traces retoryczny to retoryka, the study and art of persuasion, with further roots in Latin rhetorica and Greek rhetoric. The Polish adjective retoryczny and its forms, including retorycznej, encode the relationship between language use and persuasive technique in a grammatically precise way.

Related terms include retoryka (rhetoric), figura retoryczna (rhetorical figure), mowa retoryczna (rhetorical speech), and styl retoryczny (rhetorical style). Understanding the inflection helps in correctly forming phrases in different grammatical contexts and in distinguishing adjectives describing feminine nouns from other gender forms.

See also: retoryka, figura retoryczna, mowa retoryczna, argumentacja.