inficio

See also: inficiò

Italian

Verb

inficio

  1. first-person singular present indicative of inficiare

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *enfakjō. Equivalent to in- (in, at, on) +‎ faciō (to perform, do).

Pronunciation

Verb

īnficiō (present infinitive īnficere, perfect active īnfēcī, supine īnfectum); third conjugation -variant

  1. to dip, to dunk, to submerge
  2. to color, to dye, to imbue, to stain, to tinge
  3. to corrupt, to poison, to spoil, to taint, to infect

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

  • English: infect
  • Middle French: infecter
  • Spanish: infectar

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