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Italian
Verb
comburo
- first-person singular present indicative of comburere
Latin
Etymology
From con- + ūrō. The -b- was inserted by analogy with ambūrō. Alternatively directly from co- + ambūrō.
Pronunciation
Verb
combūrō (present infinitive combūrere, perfect active combussī, supine combustum); third conjugation
- to burn up
- to consume (with fire)
- to cremate
- to scald
Conjugation
Descendants
References
- “comburo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “comburo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- comburo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.