conflagro Latin · revision 33797

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Rhetorica ad Herennium|origins=ine-pro *bʰlg-ro-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈkõː.fɫa.ɡroː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈkɔɱ.fla.ɡro]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cōnflagrō''' (present infinitive cōnflagrāre, perfect active cōnflagrāvī, supine cōnflagrātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|con-|flagrō|t2=to burn]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan takes [[m|la|flagrō]] as a verb made from an adjective ⟨*flagro-⟩ “burning”, from [[itc-pro|*flagro-]] and [[ine-pro|*bʰlg-ro-|t=burning]]; he compares [[grc|φλογμός|tr=phlogmós|t=flame]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it first in the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' and notes that poets avoid it entirely.^(TLL) Lewis & Short call it rare and mostly Ciceronian.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to be burnt down or consumed by fire: Cicero speaks of the city burning, and Livy has a man struck by lightning who burned with his house.^(OLD 2012) Columella uses it of oxen's necks becoming inflamed.^(OLD 2012) Figuratively it is to be utterly destroyed, as Cicero's laws that perished with all public right, and with an ablative to be consumed by hatred: Cicero asks whether a man does not think he will burn in a fire of ill will.^(OLD 2012) Cicero also has a pun in the ''Verrines'': on one night the praetor burned with a shameful love and the Roman fleet with the pirates' fire.^(OLD 2012) Hyginus has a form with metathesis, ⟨confraglāvit⟩.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of a city burning and of being consumed by hatred.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy, of a man burned with his house.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella, of inflamed necks.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To be on fire, be burnt down, be consumed by fire.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To become [[m|en|inflamed]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(figurative)'' To be utterly destroyed or ruined.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(figurative)'' To be the object of hatred; to burn with passion.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[cōnflagrātiō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[dēflagrō]]

+ * [[flagrō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}