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Catalan
Pronunciation
Verb
cremo
- first-person singular present indicative of cremar
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkrɛ.mo/
- Rhymes: -ɛmo
- Hyphenation: crè‧mo
Verb
cremo
- first-person singular present indicative of cremare
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃- (“to burn”); if so, then cognate with carbō (“charcoal”) (though disputed), English hearth. An alternative theory links the word to Proto-Celtic *kurmi (“beer”).[1]
Pronunciation
Verb
cremō (present infinitive cremāre, perfect active cremāvī, supine cremātum); first conjugation
- to consume or destroy by fire, burn
- Synonyms: adoleō, ūrō, īnflammō, flammō, cōnflagrō, flagrō, incendō, accendō, ārdeō
- to burn something to ashes; cremate
- to make a burnt offering
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Descendants
- Gallo-Italic:
- Gallo-Romance: (only derived nouns)
- Occitano-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Borrowings:
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “cremō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 142
Further reading
- “cremo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cremo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cremo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to perish in the flames: igni cremari, necari
- to burn a corpse: aliquem mortuum cremare (Sen. 23. 84)
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛmu
- Hyphenation: cre‧mo
Verb
cremo
- first-person singular present indicative of cremar
Romanian
Pronunciation
Noun
cremo f
- vocative singular of cremă
Spanish
Verb
cremo
- first-person singular present indicative of cremar