inficio
See also: inficiò
Italian
Verb
inficio
- first-person singular present indicative of inficiare
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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *enfakjō. Equivalent to in- (“in, at, on”) + faciō (“to perform, do”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ĩːˈfɪ.ki.oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [iɱˈfiː.t͡ʃi.o]
Verb
īnficiō (present infinitive īnficere, perfect active īnfēcī, supine īnfectum); third conjugation iō-variant
- to dip, to dunk, to submerge
- to color, to dye, to imbue, to stain, to tinge
- to corrupt, to poison, to spoil, to taint, to infect
Conjugation
Conjugation of īnficiō (third conjugation iō-variant)
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References
- “inficio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “inficio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- inficio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be filled with absurd prejudices: opinionum pravitate infici
- to be filled with absurd prejudices: opinionum pravitate infici