inficiare
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin īnficior, alteration of Classical Latin īnfitior (“to deny, contradict”), from *īnfitiae (“denial”) (see īnfitiās eō), from fateor (“to admit, acknowledge”).
Verb
inficiàre (first-person singular present infìcio, first-person singular past historic inficiài, past participle inficiàto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive, law) to invalidate, reduce in validity or value
Conjugation
Conjugation of inficiàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Descendants
- → English: inficiate
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
īnficiāre
- second-person singular present passive subjunctive of īnficiō