ignis
Catalan
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *əngʷnis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥gʷnís (“fire”). Cognate with Sanskrit अग्नि (agní), Hittite 𒀀𒀝𒉌𒅖 (akniš) (an Indo-Iranian borrowing), Old Church Slavonic огнь (ognĭ) and Old Prussian ugnis.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈiɡ.nis/, [ˈɪŋnɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈiɲ.ɲis/, [ˈiɲːis]
Noun
ignis m (genitive ignis); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or occasionally -ī).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | ignis | ignēs |
Genitive | ignis | ignium |
Dative | ignī | ignibus |
Accusative | ignem | ignēs ignīs |
Ablative | igne ignī |
ignibus |
Vocative | ignis | ignēs |
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Italian: igne
- Romanian: Igniș (toponym)
References
- “ignis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ignis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ignis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- ignis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to light, make a fire: ignem facere, accendere
- to set fire to houses: ignem tectis inferre, subicere
- to take fire: ignem concipere, comprehendere
- to make up, stir up a fire: ignem excitare (pro Mur. 25. 51)
- to keep up a fire: ignem alere
- to perish in the flames: igni cremari, necari
- to raise an alarm of fire: ignem conclamare
- the wind spread the conflagration: ventus ignem distulit (B. G. 5. 43)
- an eruption of Etna: eruptiones ignium Aetnaeorum
- Vesuvius is discharging flame: Vesuvius evomit (more strongly eructat) ignes
- to threaten with fire and sword: minitari alicui igni ferroque (Phil. 13. 9. 21)
- to proscribe a person, declare him an outlaw: aqua et igni interdicere alicui
- to ravage with fire and sword: omnia ferro ignique, ferro atque igni or ferro flammaque vastare
- to set fire to the siege-works: ignem inferre operibus (B. C. 2. 14)
- to light, make a fire: ignem facere, accendere
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 297
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