accendo
Italian
Verb
accendo
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
ad- (“to”) + candeō (“I am brilliant, glittering or illuminated; I shine, glitter, glisten; gleam white; I glow (with heat), I am glowing hot, I am hot”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /akˈken.doː/, [äkˈkɛn̪d̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /atˈt͡ʃen.do/, [ätˈt͡ʃɛn̪d̪o]
Verb
accendō (present infinitive accendere, perfect active accendī, supine accēnsum); third conjugation
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References
- “accendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “accendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- accendo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to light, make a fire: ignem facere, accendere
- to set buildings on fire: accendere, incendere aedificia
- to fire with courage: animos militum accendere
- to rouse a person's interest, cupidity: cupiditatem alicuius accendere
- to light, make a fire: ignem facere, accendere