ognisko

Polish

Alternative forms

• ogienisko (Eastern Lublin, Krzczonów, Olszanka, Chmiel Pierwszy, Piotrków Pierwszy)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ognisko. By surface analysis, ogień +‎ -isko. Sense 3 and sense 5 are semantic loans from Latin focus (“hearth”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɔɡˈɲis.kɔ/

• (Lesser Poland):
  • (Eastern Lublin) IPA^(key): [ɔɡˈɲis.kɔ]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -iskɔ
• Syllabification: og‧nis‧ko

Noun

ognisko n

1. bonfire, campfire (pile of wood, brushwood, etc., lit in the open air)
2. bonfire (social gathering usually held in the evening around a burning pyre)
4. focus (place where something is concentrated or from which something spreads)
5. cultural or educational center for the promotion of some field of art, science, etc.

   Synonym: ośrodek

7. (optics) focus, image point

   Synonym: fokus

8. (pathology) disease focus
9. (dated) fireplace, hearth

   Synonym: palenisko

10. (Eastern Lublin, Krzywowola) synonym of ogień

Declension

Declension of ognisko

	singular	plural
nominative	ognisko	ogniska
genitive	ogniska	ognisk
dative	ognisku	ogniskom
accusative	ognisko	ogniska
instrumental	ogniskiem	ogniskami
locative	ognisku	ogniskach
vocative	ognisko	ogniska

Derived terms

adjective

• ogniskowy

nouns

• ognisko domowe
• ognisko rodzinne

verbs

• ogniskować impf, zogniskować pf

Related terms

noun

• ogniskowa

Further reading

• “ognisko”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “ognisko”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)
• Jan Karłowicz (1903), “ogień”, in Hieronim Łopaciński, Wacław Taczanowski, editors, Słownik gwar polskich [Dictionary of Polish dialects] (in Polish), volume 3: L do O, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 416