Italian

Verb

comburo

1. first-person singular present indicative of comburere

Latin

Etymology

From con- +‎ urō. The -b- was inserted by analogy with ambūrō. Alternatively directly from co- +‎ ambūrō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /komˈbuː.roː/, [kɔmˈbuː.roː]

Verb

combūrō ‎(present infinitive combūrere, perfect active combussī, supine combustum); third conjugation

1. I burn up
2. I consume (with fire)
3. I cremate
4. I scald

Inflection

Descendants

• English: combust
• Italian: comburere

References

• comburo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• comburo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “comburo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.