incendiaire
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin incendiārius. By surface analysis, incendie + -aire.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.djɛʁ/
- Homophone: incendiaires
Adjective
[edit]incendiaire (plural incendiaires)
- incendiary (causing fire)
- (figuratively) incendiary, inflammatory
- des propos incendiaires ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- (technical) incendiary (pertaining to an uncontrolled fire)
Noun
[edit]incendiaire m (plural incendiaires)
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[edit]See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “incendiaire” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
- “incendiaire” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
- “incendiaire” in Dictionnaire Le Robert.
- “incendiaire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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