Latin

Noun

ignis m ‎(genitive ignis); third declension

1. fire

   • ferro ignique.

     With iron and [with] fire.

   • 29–19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid, 8.420

     striduntque cavernis / stricturae Chalybum et fornacibus ignis anhelat

     Chalybian ores hiss in the caverns, and from the furnace mouths puff the hot-panting fires

Inflection

Third declension, alternative ablative singular in -ī and accusative plural in -īs.

Derived terms

• ignēscō ‎(“to kindle, burn”)
• igniō ‎(“to ignite”)
• igneus ‎(“fiery”)
• ignifer ‎(“bearing fire”)

Descendants

• Italian: igne

References

• ignis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ignis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• IGNIS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “ignis”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to light, make a fire: ignem facere, accendere
    
  • to set fire to houses: ignem tectis inferre, subicere
    
  • to take fire: ignem concipere, comprehendere
    
  • to make up, stir up a fire: ignem excitare (pro Mur. 25. 51)
    
  • to keep up a fire: ignem alere
    
  • to perish in the flames: igni cremari, necari
    
  • to raise an alarm of fire: ignem conclamare
    
  • the wind spread the conflagration: ventus ignem distulit (B. G. 5. 43)
    
  • an eruption of Etna: eruptiones ignium Aetnaeorum
    
  • Vesuvius is discharging flame: Vesuvius evomit (more strongly eructat) ignes
    
  • to threaten with fire and sword: minitari alicui igni ferroque (Phil. 13. 9. 21)
    
  • to proscribe a person, declare him an outlaw: aqua et igni interdicere alicui
    
  • to ravage with fire and sword: omnia ferro ignique, ferro atque igni or ferro flammaque vastare
    
  • to set fire to the siege-works: ignem inferre operibus (B. C. 2. 14)
    
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 297