ognisko
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Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ognisko. By surface analysis, ogień + -isko. Sense 3 and sense 5 are semantic loans from Latin focus (“hearth”).
Pronunciation
Noun
ognisko n
- bonfire, campfire (pile of wood, brushwood, etc., lit in the open air)
- bonfire (social gathering usually held in the evening around a burning pyre)
- focus (place where something is concentrated or from which something spreads)
- cultural or educational center for the promotion of some field of art, science, etc.
- Synonym: ośrodek
- (optics) focus, image point
- Synonym: fokus
- (pathology) disease focus
- (dated) fireplace, hearth
- Synonym: palenisko
Declension
Declension of ognisko
Derived terms
adjective
nouns
verbs
- ogniskować impf, zogniskować pf
Related terms
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