infuocare

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to heat until red hot
  2. (figuratively, transitive) to excite, agitate, enrage

Concepts

Hyphenated as
in‧fuo‧cà‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/in.fwoˈka.re/
Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin infocāre, a verb derived from Latin focus ("fire", originally "hearth"). By surface analysis, in- + fuoco + -are.

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