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accendo

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /atˈt͡ʃɛn.do/
  • Rhymes: -ɛndo
  • Hyphenation: ac‧cèn‧do

Verb

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accendo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of accendere

Anagrams

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Latin

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Etymology

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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

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Verb

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accendō (present infinitive accendere, perfect active accendī, supine accēnsum); third conjugation

  1. to kindle or light (a fire)
    Synonyms: ūrō, īnflammō, flammō, cōnflagrō, flagrō, incendō, ārdeō, cremō, adoleō
  2. to inflame or arouse
    Synonyms: excitō, īnstīgō, īnstinguō, exciō, perpellō, concieō, concitō, impellō, īnflammō, cieō, moveō, mōlior, adhortor, sollicitō, ērigō, incendō
    Antonyms: domō, lēniō, sōpiō, sēdō, dēlēniō, coerceō, mītigō, commītigō, ēlevō, levō, allevō, alleviō, restinguō

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Italian: accendere
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: acender
  • Sardinian: acchendere
  • Spanish: acender
  • Borrowings:

References

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  • 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
  • accendo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], 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