incendium

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én

Proto-Italic *en

Proto-Italic *en-

Latin in-

Proto-Indo-European *(s)kend-der.

Proto-Italic *kandēō

Latin candeō

Latin incendō

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -ium

Latin incendium

From incendō + -ium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪŋˈkɛn.di.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [in̠ʲˈt͡ʃɛn.di.um]

Noun

incendium n (genitive incendiī or incendī); second declension

1. A fire, inferno, conflagration; heat; torch.
2. (heat of) passion, vehemence

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	incendium	incendia
genitive	incendiī incendī1	incendiōrum
dative	incendiō	incendiīs
accusative	incendium	incendia
ablative	incendiō	incendiīs
vocative	incendium	incendia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• Catalan: incendi
• French: incendie
• Galician: incendio
• Italian: incendio
• Old Occitan: encendi
  • Occitan: incendi (older also encende)
• Portuguese: incêndio
• Romanian: incendiu
• Sicilian: ncenniu
• Spanish: incendio

References

• “incendium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “incendium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "incendium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “incendium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be on fire, in flames: incendio flagrare, or simply conflagrare, ardere (Liv. 30. 7)
    
  • to be burned to ashes: incendio deleri, absūmi
    
• “incendium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “incendium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin