English → Latin
“burn” in Latin
absūmōto diminish, take away, use up, consume, exhaust; to ruin, destroy, annihilate, corrupt; to killincendiumA fire, inferno, conflagration; heat; torch.; passion, vehemenceūrōto burn, consume, inflame; especially of the emotions: to inflame with passion, love or lust; burn, set afire or on fireincendōto set on fire, burn, kindle; to heat, make hot, scorch; to light up with fire, make a fire uponīnflammōto ignite, inflame; to excite, inflame, enkindle, set afire or on fire, igniteambūrōto burn superficially, scorch, to burn wholly, singe, char; to frostbitecremōto consume or destroy by fire; burn; to burn something to ashes; cremate; to make a burnt offeringconcremōto burn up (consume by fire)adūrōto kindle, set fire to; to singe, scorch, burninūrōto burn (in, off or away)
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
burn
TR., absumere or consumere igni flammis, incendio; urere; incendere. inflammare (to set in flames): combnrere; igni necare (of a living person): amburere (burn round, half burn): cremare, concremare (especially of the dead): adurere (to burn here and there, as bread, meat): inurere (to burn in, brand). To burn anybody alive, aliquem vivum com burere.
To hurt by burning (the hand, for instance), urere, adurere.
To bite, sting, urere, pungere, mordere.
Parch, urere, torrere.
Use for light, etc., urere, in lumen urere or uti.
Of lime, bricks, etc., coquere. INTR., deflagrare, conflagrare (flammis, incendio); flammis, incendio absumi consumi; ardere, flagrare; uri aduri, comburi, exuri; cremari, concremari. He burned his father’s house, domum paternam (lares patrios) incendio absumsit. The temple of Diana was burned on that night, ed nocte templum Dianae deflagravit. To burn incense, tura adolere. To burn to ashes, in cineres redigere: to coals, in carbones redigere. To burn ail (lay waste with fire), omnia igni vastare. Sun-burned, sole adustus. To burn one’s self, uri, amburi. Half-burned, semiustus, semiustulatus; ambustus; semicrematus.
To glow like fire, ardere, flagrare.
To be hot to the touch, ardere, dagrare, candere.
To be inflammable, ignem concipere posse.
To be heated with desire or passion, ardere, incensum esse (e.g., cupiditate, amore); flagrare, conflagrare, aestuare (e.g., invidia flagrare or aestuare; invidiae incendio conflagrare). I burn to see you, incensus sum cupiditate te videndi.
burn s.
ambustio, ustio. Green coriander heals burns, coriandrum viride sanat ambusta.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for burn?
- The usual Latin words for “burn” are absūmō, incendium, ūrō; also incendō, īnflammō, ambūrō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.