inficio

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See also: inficiò

Italian

Verb

inficio

  1. first-person singular present indicative of inficiare

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *enfakjō. Equivalent to in- (in, at, on) +‎ faciō (to perform, do).

Pronunciation

Verb

īnficiō (present infinitive īnficere, perfect active īnfēcī, supine īnfectum); third conjugation iō-variant

  1. to dip, to dunk, to submerge
  2. to color, to dye, to imbue, to stain, to tinge
  3. to corrupt, to poison, to spoil, to taint, to infect

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Descendants

  • English: infect
  • Middle French: infecter
  • Spanish: infectar

References

  • inficio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • inficio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • inficio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be filled with absurd prejudices: opinionum pravitate infici