flagro

• IPA^(key): /ˈfla.ɡro/
• Rhymes: -aɡro
• Hyphenation: flà‧gro

flagro

1. first-person singular present indicative of flagrare

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfla.ɡroː/, [ˈfɫ̪äɡroː] or IPA^(key): /ˈflaɡ.roː/, [ˈfɫ̪äɡroː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfla.ɡro/, [ˈfläːɡro] or IPA^(key): /ˈflaɡ.ro/, [ˈfläɡro]

From Proto-Italic *flagrāō, from *flagros (“burning”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥g-ro-, from *bʰel- (“shine”).[1] Cognate with Latin flamma (“flame, fire”) (< Proto-Italic *flagma < Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥g-mh₂-), Ancient Greek φλέγω (phlégō, “I burn”), Sanskrit भ्रज (bhrája, “fire, shining”), Italian brace (“embers, glowing coals”).

flagrō (present infinitive flagrāre, perfect active flagrāvī, supine flagrātum); first conjugation

1. to burn, blaze

   Synonyms: ūror, ārdeō, cōnflagrō, īnflammō, flammō, incendō, accendō, cremō, adoleō, caleō, dēflagrō, ferveō

   • 106 - 43 B.C.E. — Cicero, Letters to Atticus 7:17.4

     tōtam enim Italiam flagrātūram bellō intellegō.

     For I perceive that all Italy will be blazing with war.

• Passive forms are predominantly post-Classical.

• dēflagrō
• flagrāns
• īnflagrō

• flāmen
• flamma
• flāvus
• fulgeō
• fulgur
• fulvus

• “flagro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “flagro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• flagro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be on fire, in flames: incendio flagrare, or simply conflagrare, ardere (Liv. 30. 7)
    
  • to be consumed by the fires of ambition: gloriae, laudis cupiditate incensum esse, flagrare
    
  • to long for a thing, yearn for it: desiderio alicuius rei teneri, affici (more strongly flagrare, incensum esse)
    
  • to be detested: invidia flagrare, premi
    
  • to have an ardent longing for a thing: cupiditate alicuius rei ardere, flagrare
    
  • everywhere the torch of war is flaming: omnia bello flagrant or ardent (Fam. 4. 1. 2)
    
• James Morwood (1997) Oxford Latin Minidictionary, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 107

By dissimilation from fragrō.

• fraglō, fragrō

flagrō (present infinitive flagrāre, perfect active flagrāvī); first conjugation, no passive, no supine stem

1. Alternative form of fragrō
   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 6.8:

     nam te non viduas iacere noctes
     nequiquam tacitum cubile clamat
     sertis(que) ac Syrio flagrans olivo,

     • 1987 translation by G. P. Goold

       For that you are not spending nights on your own the bed, vainly dumb, cries aloud, perfumed as it is with garlands and Syrian scent

flagro

1. first-person singular present indicative of flagrar