incensus

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Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of incendō.

Participle

incēnsus (feminine incēnsa, neuter incēnsum); first/second-declension participle

  1. set on fire
  2. burnt
  3. (figuratively) of the mind: inflamed, i.e., enraged, excited
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.376:
      “Heu furiīs incēnsa feror!”
      “Alas, inflamed by fury, I am carried along!”

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative incēnsus incēnsa incēnsum incēnsī incēnsae incēnsa
genitive incēnsī incēnsae incēnsī incēnsōrum incēnsārum incēnsōrum
dative incēnsō incēnsae incēnsō incēnsīs
accusative incēnsum incēnsam incēnsum incēnsōs incēnsās incēnsa
ablative incēnsō incēnsā incēnsō incēnsīs
vocative incēnse incēnsa incēnsum incēnsī incēnsae incēnsa

Adjective

incēnsus (feminine incēnsa, neuter incēnsum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. unregistered, not enrolled in census

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Noun

incēnsus m (genitive incēnsūs); fourth declension

  1. incense
  2. fire

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative incēnsus incēnsūs
genitive incēnsūs incēnsuum
dative incēnsuī incēnsibus
accusative incēnsum incēnsūs
ablative incēnsū incēnsibus
vocative incēnsus incēnsūs

Descendants

References

  • incensus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • incensus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • incensus 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)
  • Online Latin dictionary, Olivetti
  • incensus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be consumed by the fires of ambition: gloriae, laudis cupiditate incensum esse, flagrare
    • to be interested in, have a taste for culture: optimarum artium studio incensum esse
    • to be fired with love: amore captum, incensum, inflammatum esse, ardere
    • to long for a thing, yearn for it: desiderio alicuius rei teneri, affici (more strongly flagrare, incensum esse)
    • to be fired with admiration: admiratione incensum esse
    • to be fired with rage: ira incensum esse
    • in a transport of rage: furore incensus, abreptus, impulsus
    • with incense and perfumes: ture et odoribus incensis
  • incensus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • incensus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin