incendium
Latin
Etymology
incendō + -ium
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /inˈken.di.um/, [ɪŋˈkɛn̪d̪iʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /inˈt͡ʃen.di.um/, [in̠ʲˈt͡ʃɛn̪d̪ium]
Noun
incendium n (genitive incendiī or incendī); second declension
- A fire, inferno, conflagration; heat; torch.
- (heat of) passion, vehemence
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | incendium | incendia |
| Genitive | incendiī incendī1 | incendiōrum |
| Dative | incendiō | incendiīs |
| Accusative | incendium | incendia |
| Ablative | incendiō | incendiīs |
| Vocative | incendium | incendia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
- Catalan: incendi
- French: incendie
- Galician: incendio
- Italian: incendio
- Occitan: incendi
- Portuguese: incêndio
- Romanian: incendiu
- Sicilian: ncenniu
- Spanish: incendio
References
- “incendium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “incendium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- incendium 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)
- incendium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be on fire, in flames: incendio flagrare, or simply conflagrare, ardere (Liv. 30. 7)
- to be burned to ashes: incendio deleri, absūmi
- to be on fire, in flames: incendio flagrare, or simply conflagrare, ardere (Liv. 30. 7)
- “incendium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “incendium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin