incendium

Latin

Etymology

incendō +‎ -ium

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /inˈken.di.um/, [ɪŋˈkɛn̪d̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /inˈt͡ʃen.di.um/, [in̠ʲˈt͡ʃɛn̪d̪ium]

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).

Case	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
• Occitan: incendi
• 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’s 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