inficio

See also: inficiò

Italian

Verb

inficio

1. first-person singular present indicative of inficiare

Anagrams

• fiocini

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *enfakjō. Equivalent to in- (“in, at, on”) +‎ faciō (“to perform, do”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /inˈfi.ki.oː/, [ĩːˈfɪkioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /inˈfi.t͡ʃi.o/, [iɱˈfiːt͡ʃio]

Verb

īnficiō (present infinitive īnficere, perfect active īnfēcī, supine īnfectum); third conjugation iō-variant

1. to dip, to dunk, to submerge
2. to color, to dye, to imbue, to stain, to tinge
3. to corrupt, to poison, to spoil, to taint, to infect

Conjugation

Conjugation of īnficiō (third conjugation iō-variant)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	īnficiō	īnficis	īnficit	īnficimus	īnficitis	īnficiunt
	imperfect	īnficiēbam	īnficiēbās	īnficiēbat	īnficiēbāmus	īnficiēbātis	īnficiēbant
	future	īnficiam	īnficiēs	īnficiet	īnficiēmus	īnficiētis	īnficient
	perfect	īnfēcī	īnfēcistī	īnfēcit	īnfēcimus	īnfēcistis	īnfēcērunt, īnfēcēre
	pluperfect	īnfēceram	īnfēcerās	īnfēcerat	īnfēcerāmus	īnfēcerātis	īnfēcerant
	future perfect	īnfēcerō	īnfēceris	īnfēcerit	īnfēcerimus	īnfēceritis	īnfēcerint
passive	present	īnficior	īnficeris, īnficere	īnficitur	īnficimur	īnficiminī	īnficiuntur
	imperfect	īnficiēbar	īnficiēbāris, īnficiēbāre	īnficiēbātur	īnficiēbāmur	īnficiēbāminī	īnficiēbantur
	future	īnficiar	īnficiēris, īnficiēre	īnficiētur	īnficiēmur	īnficiēminī	īnficientur
	perfect	īnfectus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	īnfectus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	īnfectus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	īnficiam	īnficiās	īnficiat	īnficiāmus	īnficiātis	īnficiant
	imperfect	īnficerem	īnficerēs	īnficeret	īnficerēmus	īnficerētis	īnficerent
	perfect	īnfēcerim	īnfēcerīs	īnfēcerit	īnfēcerīmus	īnfēcerītis	īnfēcerint
	pluperfect	īnfēcissem	īnfēcissēs	īnfēcisset	īnfēcissēmus	īnfēcissētis	īnfēcissent
passive	present	īnficiar	īnficiāris, īnficiāre	īnficiātur	īnficiāmur	īnficiāminī	īnficiantur
	imperfect	īnficerer	īnficerēris, īnficerēre	īnficerētur	īnficerēmur	īnficerēminī	īnficerentur
	perfect	īnfectus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	īnfectus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	īnfice	—	—	īnficite	—
	future	—	īnficitō	īnficitō	—	īnficitōte	īnficiuntō
passive	present	—	īnficere	—	—	īnficiminī	—
	future	—	īnficitor	īnficitor	—	—	īnficiuntor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		īnficere	īnfēcisse	īnfectūrum esse	īnficī	īnfectum esse	īnfectum īrī
participles		īnficiēns	—	īnfectūrus	—	īnfectus	īnficiendus, īnficiundus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		īnficiendī	īnficiendō	īnficiendum	īnficiendō	īnfectum	īnfectū

Derived terms

• īnfector

Related terms

• afficiō
• cōnficiō
• dēficiō
• efficiō
• faciō
• interficiō
• officiō
• perficiō
• praeficiō
• prōficiō
• reficiō
• sufficiō

 

Descendants

• → English: infect
• → Middle French: infecter
  • French: infecter
  • Norman: înfecter (Jersey)
• → Spanish: infectar

References

• “inficio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “inficio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• inficio 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 filled with absurd prejudices: opinionum pravitate infici