petryfikować
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Polish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from 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)
- Synonyms: kostnieć, utrwalać się
- (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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