inficio

See also: inficiò

Italian

Verb

inficio

first-person singular present indicative of inficiare

Anagrams

fiocini

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én

Proto-Italic *en

Proto-Italic *en-

Latin in-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti

Proto-Italic *θakjō

Proto-Italic *fakjō

Latin faciō

Latin īnficiō

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

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ĩːˈfɪ.ki.oː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [iɱˈfiː.t͡ʃi.o]

Verb

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

to dip, to dunk, to submerge
to color, to dye, to imbue, to stain, to tinge
to corrupt, to poison, to spoil, to taint, to infect

Conjugation

Conjugation of īnficiō (third (-iō variant) conjugation)

indicative		singular				plural
indicative		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	īnficiō	īnficis		īnficit	īnficimus	īnficitis		īnficiunt
	imperfect	īnficiēbam	īnficiēbās		īnficiēbat	īnficiēbāmus	īnficiēbātis		īnficiēbant
	future	īnficiam	īnficiēs		īnficiet	īnficiēmus	īnficiētis		īnficient
	perfect	īnfēcī	īnfēcistī		īnfēcit	īnfēcimus	īnfēcistis		īnfēcērunt, īnfēcēre
	pluperfect	īnfēceram	īnfēcerās		īnfēcerat	īnfēcerāmus	īnfēcerātis		īnfēcerant
	future perfect	īnfēcerō	īnfēceris		īnfēcerit	īnfēcerimus	īnfēceritis		īnfēcerint
passive	present	īnficior	īnficeris, īnficere		īnficitur	īnficimur	īnficiminī		īnficiuntur
	imperfect	īnficiēbar	īnficiēbāris, īnficiēbāre		īnficiēbātur	īnficiēbāmur	īnficiēbāminī		īnficiēbantur
	future	īnficiar	īnficiēris, īnficiēre		īnficiētur	īnficiēmur	īnficiēminī		īnficientur
	perfect	īnfectus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	īnfectus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	īnfectus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular				plural
subjunctive		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	īnficiam	īnficiās		īnficiat	īnficiāmus	īnficiātis		īnficiant
	imperfect	īnficerem	īnficerēs		īnficeret	īnficerēmus	īnficerētis		īnficerent
	perfect	īnfēcerim	īnfēcerīs		īnfēcerit	īnfēcerīmus	īnfēcerītis		īnfēcerint
	pluperfect	īnfēcissem	īnfēcissēs		īnfēcisset	īnfēcissēmus	īnfēcissētis		īnfēcissent
passive	present	īnficiar	īnficiāris, īnficiāre		īnficiātur	īnficiāmur	īnficiāminī		īnficiantur
	imperfect	īnficerer	īnficerēris, īnficerēre		īnficerētur	īnficerēmur	īnficerēminī		īnficerentur
	perfect	īnfectus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	īnfectus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular				plural
imperative		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	—	īnfice		—	—	īnficite		—
active	future	—	īnficitō		īnficitō	—	īnficitōte		īnficiuntō
passive	present	—	īnficere		—	—	īnficiminī		—
passive	future	—	īnficitor		īnficitor	—	—		īnficiuntor
non-finite forms		infinitive				participle
non-finite forms		active		passive		active		passive
present		īnficere		īnficī		īnficiēns		—
future		īnfectūrum esse		īnfectum īrī		īnfectūrus		īnficiendus, īnficiundus
perfect		īnfēcisse		īnfectum esse		—		īnfectus
future perfect		—		īnfectum fore		—		—
perfect potential		īnfectūrum fuisse		—		—		—
verbal nouns		gerund					supine
		genitive	dative		accusative	ablative	accusative		ablative
		īnficiendī	īnficiendō		īnficiendum	īnficiendō	īnfectum		īnfectū

Derived terms

īnfector

Related terms

Descendants

→ English: infect
→ Middle French: infecter
- French: infecter
- Norman: înfecter (Jersey)
→ 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