infero

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From Latin īnferus.

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• Rhymes: -ero
• Hyphenation: in‧fe‧ro

infero (accusative singular inferon, plural inferoj, accusative plural inferojn)

1. hell (place where damned souls are eternally punished)

   Antonym: ĉielo (“heaven”)

   • 1908, L. L. Zamenhof, La rabistoj: dramo en kvin aktoj, Paris: Hachette, translation of Die Räuber by Friedrich Schiller, page 10:

     Pli bone estas iri seninfana en la ĉielon, ol se ambaŭ, la patro kaj la filo, iras en la inferon.

     It's better to go childless into heaven, than if both, the father and the son, go into hell.

From Latin īnferus (“low”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *n̥dʰér.

• IPA^(key): /ˈin.fe.ro/
• Rhymes: -infero
• Hyphenation: ìn‧fe‧ro

infero (feminine infera, masculine plural inferi, feminine plural infere)

1. (literary) low, deep

   Synonym: imo

2. (figurative, rare) underworldly, infernal, chthonian

   Synonyms: ctonio, infernale, ipogeo

3. (botany) inferior (of an ovary)

• imo
• inferiore
• infimo

• Noferi, ferino

From in- (“in, at, on; into”) +‎ ferō (“bear, carry; suffer”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈin.fe.roː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈin.fe.ro/,

īnferō (present infinitive īnferre, perfect active intulī, supine illātum); third conjugation, irregular

1. to carry, bring, put, place, or throw in, into, to, or upon somewhere or something; insert

   Synonyms: īnserō, īnsertō, intrōferō, immittō, intrōdūcō, invehō, implicō

   Antonyms: excipiō, ēiciō, extrahō

2. to bring forward, introduce, produce, cause, occasion, inspire
3. to set fire to; offer, sacrifice, render
4. to bury, bring to a place for burial, inter
5. (of a tribute or tax) to pay, furnish
6. (military) to advance, march, move forward

   Synonyms: prōgredior, prōdeō, prōcēdō, eō, pergō, prŏficīscor, obeō, occurrō, adeō, subeō, gradior, vādō

7. (military) to bear the standards against the enemy, attack, make an attack upon; wage war on

   Gigantes bellum dis intulerunt ― The giants waged war against the gods (Cicero)

   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I.2:

     Aeneae Latinoque bellum intulerat

     He waged war against the Aeneas and Latinus

8. (figuratively) to bring forward, introduce; produce, occasion, make; conclude; import
9. (figuratively, with dative) to cause, inflict, impose

   Synonyms: indō, pariō, offerō, ēdō, importō, addūcō, afferō, efficiō, iniciō

10. to conclude, infer, draw an inference, to refer to

    Synonym: dēdūcō

• illātiō
• illātīvus
• illātus
• īnferibilis (New Latin)

• “infero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “infero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• infero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to set fire to houses: ignem tectis inferre, subicere
    
  • to lay violent hands on a person: manus inicere, inferre, afferre alicui
    
  • to bring mishap, ruin on a person: calamitatem, pestem inferre alicui
    
  • to recklessly hazard one's life: in periculum capitis, in discrimen vitae se inferre
    
  • to do harm to, injure any one: damnum inferre, afferre alicui
    
  • to damage a person's character, bring him into bad odour: infamiam alicui inferre, aspergere
    
  • to retard, delay a thing: moram alicui rei afferre, inferre, facere
    
  • to wrong a person: iniuriam inferre, facere alicui
    
  • to do violence to a person: vim inferre alicui
    
  • to turn the conversation on to a certain subject: sermonem inferre de aliqua re
    
  • to invade: bellum inferre alicui (Att. 9. 1. 3)
    
  • to be the aggressor in a war; to act on the offensive: bellum or arma ultro inferre
    
  • to set fire to the siege-works: ignem inferre operibus (B. C. 2. 14)
    
  • to march on the enemy: gradum inferre in hostem
    
  • to attack the enemy: signa inferre in hostem
    
  • to inflict a defeat on the enemy: cladem hostibus afferre, inferre