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accendo
accendo
Latin
Etymology
ad- (“to”) + candeō (“I am brilliant, glittering or illuminated; I shine, glitter, glisten; gleam white; I glow (with heat), I am glowing hot, I am hot”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /akˈken.doː/, [akˈkɛn.doː]
Verb
accendō (present infinitive accendere, perfect active accendī, supine accensum); third conjugation
Inflection
References
- accendo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- accendo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “accendo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to light, make a fire: ignem facere, accendere
- to set buildings on fire: accendere, incendere aedificia
- to fire with courage: animos militum accendere
- to rouse a person's interest, cupidity: cupiditatem alicuius accendere
- to light, make a fire: ignem facere, accendere