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 === Rhymes: -iskɔ Syllabification: og‧nis‧ko === 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 (Eastern Lublin, Krzywowola) synonym of ogień ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== === 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