incendi
Dictionary entries
- Entry →incendo, incendere, incendi, incensus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
set on fire; set fire to, kindle, burn; cause to flame/burn; keep fire burning;; scorch; make fiery hot (fever/thirst); light up; cause to glow; intensify;; inspire, fire, rouse, excite, inflame; provoke, incense, aggravate;
sg. perf. act. ind. 1stpres. pass. infin. - Entry →incendium, incendi(i):
Neuter · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
fire, conflagration; fiery heat; fiery passion/love/hostility; arson (Latham);; incendiary missile; meteor; P:flames (pl.); [annonae ~ => high price of grain];
gen. sg.
Examples
- M
Liber I
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...curribus aether.hi cessant ignes. tu, qui flagrante minacemScorpion incendis cauda chelasque peruris,quid tantum, Gradiue, paras? nam mitis..." - T
Liber VI
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...tetulerunt semina aquarum. 'at nimis est ingens incendi turbidus ardor.' scilicet et fluvius qui visus maximus..." - D
Satura VI
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...ludum simulabitur, omnia fient ad uerum, quibus incendi iam frigidus aeuo Laomedontiades et Nestoris hirnea possit. tunc prurigo..." - P
Aeneid VIII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...primam aciem Praeneste sub ipsa stravi scutorumque incendi victor acervos et regem hac Erulum dextra sub Tartara misi..." - M
In Catilinam III
Marcus Tullius Cicero from Catilinarian Orations
"...Lentulo et aliis Saturnalibus caedem fieri atque urbem incendi placeret, Cethego nimium id longum videretur. Ac ne longum..." - M
Liber Quartus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...quanta conantur! Mundum hunc omnem oppidum esse nostrum! Incendi igitur eos, qui audiunt, vides. Quantam rem agas..." - G
Liber VII
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI VII DE BELLO GALLICOCUM A. HIRTI SUPPLEMENTO
"...causa rei familiaris commoda neglegenda: vicos atque aedificia incendi oportere hoc spatio ab via quoque versus, quo pabulandi..." - T
Liber XLIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...gazam in mare deici Pellae, Thessalonicae naualia iusserat incendi. Andronicus Thessalonicam missus traxerat tempus, id ipsum, quod accidit..."
