petryfikować
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Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adapted borrowing of Medieval Latin petrificō + -ować, from Latin petra, from Ancient Greek πέτρα (pétra, “rock”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]petryfikować impf (perfective spetryfikować)
- (transitive, literary) to ossify, to preserve (to cause to grow formulaic and permanent)
- Synonyms: konserwować, utrwalać
- (transitive) to petrify (to produce rigidity akin to stone)
- Synonyms: skamieniać, zeskalać
- (reflexive with się, literary) to fossilize, to ossify (to grow formulaic and permanent)
- (reflexive with się) to petrify (to become stone, or of a stony hardness)
- Synonym: kamienieć
Conjugation
[edit]Related terms
[edit]adjective
noun
Further reading
[edit]- petryfikować in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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- Rhymes:Polish/ɔvat͡ɕ
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