ignis

Catalan

Pronunciation

(Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈiɡ.nis/

Adjective

ignis

masculine plural of igni

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *əngʷnis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥gʷnís (“fire”). Cognate with Sanskrit अग्नि (agní), Hittite 𒀀𒀝𒉌𒅖 (akniš) (an Indo-Iranian borrowing), Old Church Slavonic огнь (ognĭ) and Old Prussian ugnis.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈiɡ.nis/, [ˈɪŋnɪs̠]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈiɲ.ɲis/, [ˈiɲːis]
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Noun

ignis m (genitive ignis); third declension

fire
ferro ignique ― with iron and [with] fire
- 29–19 B.C.E., Virgil, Aeneid, 8.420
  striduntque cavernis / stricturae Chalybum et fornacibus ignis anhelat
  Chalybian ores hiss in the caverns, and from the furnace mouths puff the hot-panting fires
(metonymically) beacon, signal by fire

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or occasionally -ī).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ignis	ignēs
Genitive	ignis	ignium
Dative	ignī	ignibus
Accusative	ignem	ignēs ignīs
Ablative	igne ignī	ignibus
Vocative	ignis	ignēs

Derived terms

ignēscō (“to kindle, burn”)
igniō (“to ignite”)
igneus (“fiery”)
igniarius
ignicolor
igniculus
ignifer (“bearing fire”)
ignifluus
ignigenus
ignipotēns
ignivagus
ignivomus

Descendants

→ English: ignicolist; ignify; ignimbrite; ignis fatuus
→ French: ignifuge
→ Spanish: ignífugo
→ Italian: igne
Romanian: Igniș (toponym)

References

“ignis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ignis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
ignis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
ignis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to light, make a fire: ignem facere, accendere
- to set fire to houses: ignem tectis inferre, subicere
- to take fire: ignem concipere, comprehendere
- to make up, stir up a fire: ignem excitare (pro Mur. 25. 51)
- to keep up a fire: ignem alere
- to perish in the flames: igni cremari, necari
- to raise an alarm of fire: ignem conclamare
- the wind spread the conflagration: ventus ignem distulit (B. G. 5. 43)
- an eruption of Etna: eruptiones ignium Aetnaeorum
- Vesuvius is discharging flame: Vesuvius evomit (more strongly eructat) ignes
- to threaten with fire and sword: minitari alicui igni ferroque (Phil. 13. 9. 21)
- to proscribe a person, declare him an outlaw: aqua et igni interdicere alicui
- to ravage with fire and sword: omnia ferro ignique, ferro atque igni or ferro flammaque vastare
- to set fire to the siege-works: ignem inferre operibus (B. C. 2. 14)
De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 297