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inficio

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See also: inficiò

Italian

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Verb

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inficio

  1. first-person singular present indicative of inficiare

Anagrams

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Latin

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Verb

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

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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

References

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  • 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