Esperanto

Noun

infero ‎(accusative singular inferon, plural inferoj, accusative plural inferojn)

1. **** (place where damned souls are eternally punished)
   • 1908, Zamenhof, L. L., La rabistoj: dramo en kvin aktoj, Paris: Hachette, translation of Die Räuber by Friedrich Schiller, page 10:

     Pli bone estas iri seninfana en la ĉielon, ol se ambaŭ, la patro kaj la filo, iras en la inferon.

     It's better to go childless into heaven, than if both, the father and the son, go into ****.

Antonyms

• ĉielo ‎(“heaven”)

Italian

Etymology

From Latin īnferus ‎(“low”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *n̥dʰér.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈin.fe.ro/, [ˈiɱfer̺o]
• Hyphenation: ìn‧fe‧ro

Adjective

infero m ‎(feminine singular infera, masculine plural inferi, feminine plural infere)

1. (literary) low, deep
2. (figuratively, rare) underworldly, infernal, chthonian
3. (botany) inferior (of an ovary)

Synonyms

• (1): imo
• (2): ctonio, infernale, ipogeo

Related terms

• imo
• inferiore
• infimo

Latin

Etymology

From in- ‎(“in, at, on; into”) +‎ ferō ‎(“bear, carry; suffer”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈiːn.fe.roː/

Verb

īnferō ‎(present infinitive īnferre, perfect active intulī, supine illātum); third conjugation, irregular

1. I carry, bring, put or throw into or to somewhere or upon something; insert; set fire to; offer, sacrifice.
2. I bring to a place for burial, bury, inter.
3. (of a tribute or tax) I pay, furnish.
4. (military) I advance, march, move forward.
5. (military) I bear the standards against the enemy, attack, make an attack upon.
6. (figuratively) I bring forward, introduce; produce, occasion, make; conclude; import.
7. (figuratively, with dative) I cause, inflict, impose.

Inflection

Derived terms

• illātiō
• illātīvus
• illātus
• īnferibilis (New Latin)

Related terms

Descendants

References

• infero in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• infero in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “infero”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to set fire to houses: ignem tectis inferre, subicere
    
  • to lay violent hands on a person: manus inicere, inferre, afferre alicui
    
  • to bring mishap, ruin on a person: calamitatem, pestem inferre alicui
    
  • to recklessly hazard one's life: in periculum capitis, in discrimen vitae se inferre
    
  • to do harm to, injure any one: damnum inferre, afferre alicui
    
  • to damage a person's character, bring him into bad odour: infamiam alicui inferre, aspergere
    
  • to retard, delay a thing: moram alicui rei afferre, inferre, facere
    
  • to wrong a person: iniuriam inferre, facere alicui
    
  • to do violence to a person: vim inferre alicui
    
  • to turn the conversation on to a certain subject: sermonem inferre de aliqua re
    
  • to invade: bellum inferre alicui (Att. 9. 1. 3)
    
  • to be the aggressor in a war; to act on the offensive: bellum or arma ultro inferre
    
  • to set fire to the siege-works: ignem inferre operibus (B. C. 2. 14)
    
  • to march on the enemy: gradum inferre in hostem
    
  • to attack the enemy: signa inferre in hostem
    
  • to inflict a defeat on the enemy: cladem hostibus afferre, inferre