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Italian
Etymology
A Dantean Latinism borrowed from Latin ignem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥gʷnis (“fire”).
Pronunciation
Noun
igne m (plural igni)
- (obsolete, literary) fire
- Synonym: fuoco
1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Purgatorio [The Divine Comedy: Purgatory] (paperback), Bompiani, published 2001, Canto XXIX, page 450, lines 100–102:ma leggi Ezechïel, che li dipigne ¶ come li vide dalla fredda parte ¶ venir con vento e con nube e con igne- but read Ezekiel, who depicts them as he beheld them from the cold region coming with cloud, with whirlwind, and with fire
Further reading
- igne in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
Noun
igne
- ablative singular of ignis