Latin

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Etymology

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incendō +‎ -ium

Pronunciation

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Noun

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incendium n (genitive incendiī or incendī); second declension

  1. A fire, inferno, conflagration; heat; torch.
  2. (heat of) passion, vehemence

Declension

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

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).

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References

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  • 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[1], 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
  • 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
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