infierno

From Latin īnfernum, neuter form of īnfernus (“of the lower regions”). Compare Dalmatian infiarn.

infierno m

1. hell
   • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 99:

     Là drento xì l’infierno naturale.

     But inside it is natural hell.

From Latin īnfernum; attested from 1140.^[1] Regarding the phonetics (Latin in normally becomes en in Spanish), the word was perhaps influenced or reinforced by the Ecclesiastical Latin pronunciation. There were similar developments in other Romance languages.

• IPA^(key): /inˈfjeɾno/

infierno m (plural infiernos)

1. (biblical) Sheol, the Hebrew term for the underworld; hell.
   • c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 6r. a.

     e dẏxo decẽdre / al infierno dolorioſo ſo por mẏo / fijo.

     And he said: "I shall descend to hell unto my son in mourning."

   • Idem, 8r.

     e ſi perdiere a beniamin deſcen / dre en mi ueieza enel ĩfierno. e / plorar lo he ẏ.

     And should I lose Benjamin I will descend to hell, in my old age, and I shall mourn him there.

• Spanish: infierno
  • → Cebuano: impiyerno
  • → Tagalog: impiyerno

Inherited from Old Spanish infierno, from Latin īnfernum, neuter form of īnfernus (“of the lower regions”), based on īnferus (“low”).

• IPA^(key): /inˈfjeɾno/

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -eɾno
• Syllabification: in‧fier‧no

infierno m (plural infiernos)

1. hell

• → Cebuano: impiyerno
• → Tagalog: impiyerno

• “infierno”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10