cremo

See also: cremó and cremò

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈkɾe.mu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈkɾe.mo]

Verb

cremo

1. first-person singular present indicative of cremar

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkrɛ.mo/
• Rhymes: -ɛmo
• Hyphenation: crè‧mo

Verb

cremo

1. first-person singular present indicative of cremare

Anagrams

• crome, merco

Latin

Etymology

Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃- (“to burn”); if so, then cognate with carbō (“charcoal”) (though disputed), English hearth. An alternative theory links the word to Proto-Celtic *kurmi (“beer”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkre.moː/, [ˈkrɛmoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkre.mo/, [ˈkrɛːmo]

Verb

cremō (present infinitive cremāre, perfect active cremāvī, supine cremātum); first conjugation

1. to consume or destroy by fire, burn

   Synonyms: adoleō, ūrō, īnflammō, flammō, cōnflagrō, flagrō, incendō, accendō, ārdeō

2. to burn something to ashes; cremate
3. to make a burnt offering

Conjugation

Conjugation of cremō (first conjugation)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	cremō	cremās	cremat	cremāmus	cremātis	cremant
	imperfect	cremābam	cremābās	cremābat	cremābāmus	cremābātis	cremābant
	future	cremābō	cremābis	cremābit	cremābimus	cremābitis	cremābunt
	perfect	cremāvī	cremāvistī	cremāvit	cremāvimus	cremāvistis	cremāvērunt, cremāvēre
	pluperfect	cremāveram	cremāverās	cremāverat	cremāverāmus	cremāverātis	cremāverant
	future perfect	cremāverō	cremāveris	cremāverit	cremāverimus	cremāveritis	cremāverint
passive	present	cremor	cremāris, cremāre	cremātur	cremāmur	cremāminī	cremantur
	imperfect	cremābar	cremābāris, cremābāre	cremābātur	cremābāmur	cremābāminī	cremābantur
	future	cremābor	cremāberis, cremābere	cremābitur	cremābimur	cremābiminī	cremābuntur
	perfect	cremātus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	cremātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	cremātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	cremem	cremēs	cremet	cremēmus	cremētis	crement
	imperfect	cremārem	cremārēs	cremāret	cremārēmus	cremārētis	cremārent
	perfect	cremāverim	cremāverīs	cremāverit	cremāverīmus	cremāverītis	cremāverint
	pluperfect	cremāvissem	cremāvissēs	cremāvisset	cremāvissēmus	cremāvissētis	cremāvissent
passive	present	cremer	cremēris, cremēre	cremētur	cremēmur	cremēminī	crementur
	imperfect	cremārer	cremārēris, cremārēre	cremārētur	cremārēmur	cremārēminī	cremārentur
	perfect	cremātus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	cremātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	cremā	—	—	cremāte	—
	future	—	cremātō	cremātō	—	cremātōte	cremantō
passive	present	—	cremāre	—	—	cremāminī	—
	future	—	cremātor	cremātor	—	—	cremantor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		cremāre	cremāvisse	cremātūrum esse	cremārī	cremātum esse	cremātum īrī
participles		cremāns	—	cremātūrus	—	cremātus	cremandus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		cremandī	cremandō	cremandum	cremandō	cremātum	cremātū

Derived terms

• concremō
• cremātiō
• cremātor
• cremitō
• cremium
• dēcremō
• recremō

 

Descendants

• Gallo-Italic:
  • Old Ligurian: cremar
  • Old Lombard: cremar
    • Lombard: gremâ
• Gallo-Romance: (only derived nouns)
  • Champenois: cran
  • Franco-Provençal: cren
  • Norman: craingnes
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: cremar
  • Occitan: cremar, cramar
    • → French: cramer
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: cremar
  • ⇒ *caimāre (see there for further descendants)
• Borrowings:
  • → Dutch: cremeren
  • → English: cremate
  • → French: crémer
  • → Galician: cremar
  • → German: kremieren
  • → Italian: cremare
  • → Portuguese: cremar
  • → Spanish: cremar
  • → Swedish: kremera

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “cremare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 1311

Further reading

• “cremo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cremo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cremo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to perish in the flames: igni cremari, necari
    
  • to burn a corpse: aliquem mortuum cremare (Sen. 23. 84)
    

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɾẽ.mu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɾẽ.mu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɾe.mo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkɾɛ.mu/

• Rhymes: -ɛmu
• Hyphenation: cre‧mo

Verb

cremo

1. first-person singular present indicative of cremar

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkremo]

Noun

cremo f

1. vocative singular of cremă

Spanish

Verb

cremo

1. first-person singular present indicative of cremar