inficio

inficio

See also: inficiò

Italian

Verb

inficio

  1. first-person singular present indicative of inficiare

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Latin

Etymology

    From in- (in, at, on) + faciō (to perform, do).

    Pronunciation

    Verb

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

    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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    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