inficio

See also: inficiò

Italian

Verb

inficio

1. first-person singular present indicative of inficiare

Anagrams

• fiocini

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *enfakjō. Equivalent to 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

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

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

indicative		singular						plural
		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
		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
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		īnfice		—		—		īnficite		—
	future	—		īnficitō		īnficitō		—		īnficitōte		īnficiuntō
passive	present	—		īnficere		—		—		īnficiminī		—
	future	—		īnficitor		īnficitor		—		—		īnficiuntor
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		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

• afficiō
• cōnficiō
• dēficiō
• efficiō
• faciō
• interficiō
• officiō
• perficiō
• praeficiō
• prōficiō
• reficiō
• sufficiō

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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be filled with absurd prejudices: opinionum pravitate infici