Italian

Verb

inquino

1. first-person singular present indicative of inquinare

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain; according to the 8th century abridgment of Festus by Paul the Deacon, the word comes from cunīre ‎(“to ****”). Cognate with caenum, obscenus according to Pokorny.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈin.kʷi.noː/

Verb

inquinō ‎(present infinitive inquināre, perfect active inquināvī, supine inquinātum); first conjugation

1. I pollute, defile, stain, befoul.
2. I corrupt, contaminate.

Inflection

Synonyms

• (pollute): polluō

Derived terms

• inquināmentum
• inquinātē
• inquinātiō
• inquinātus

Descendants

• Italian: inquinare
• Portuguese: inquinar
• Spanish: enconar, inquinar

References

• inquino in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• inquino in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “inquino”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to be vicious, criminal: vitiis, sceleribus inquinatum, contaminatum, obrutum esse
    

Spanish

Verb

inquino

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of inquinar.