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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /konˈfla.ɡro/
- Rhymes: -aɡro
- Hyphenation: con‧flà‧gro
Verb
conflagro
- first-person singular present indicative of conflagrare
Latin
Etymology
From con- (“with”) + flagrō (“burn”).
Pronunciation
Verb
cōnflagrō (present infinitive cōnflagrāre, perfect active cōnflagrāvī, supine cōnflagrātum); first conjugation
- (intransitive) to be on fire or in flames, be consumed; to burn
- Synonyms: ūror, ārdeō, flagrō, īnflammō, flammō, incendō, accendō, cremō, adoleō
45 BCE,
Cicero,
De Natura Deorum 2.36.92:
- Atque hi tanti ignes tamque multi non modo nihil nocent terris rebusque terrestribus, sed ita prosunt, ut, si moti loco sint, conflagrare terras necesse sit a tantis ardoribus moderatione et temperatione sublata
- And these fiery bodies, which are so great and numerous, not only do no harm to the earth and what is upon the earth, but are beneficial in this way, that if they were moved from their place the earth would inevitably be consumed by their intense heat, when it had ceased to be controlled and moderated.
- (intransitive, figuratively) to be destroyed, ruined, exhausted
27 BCE – 25 BCE,
Titus Livius,
Ab Urbe Condita 7.30.12:
- ubi conflagrassent Sidicini, ad nos traiecturum illud incendium esse
- we knew that when the Sidicines had been destroyed the fire would sweep on to us.
- (intransitive, figuratively) to be inflamed or impassioned; to burn
70 BCE,
Cicero,
In Verrem 2.5.35.92:
- una atque eadem nox erat qua praetor amoris turpissimi flamma, classis populi Romani praedonum incendio conflagrabat
- On one and the same night, the praetor was burning with the flame of the most disgraceful love, a fleet of the Roman people with the fire of pirates.
- (transitive, rare) to burn
Conjugation
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References
- “conflagro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “conflagro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- conflagro 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)