English → Latin
“kindle” in Latin
accendōto kindle or light (a fire); to inflame or arouseīnflammōto ignite, inflame; to excite, inflame, enkindle, set afire or on fire, igniteincendōto set on fire, burn, kindle; to heat, make hot, scorch; to light up with fire, make a fire uponsuccendōto kindle or set on fire; to inflamesubdōto put, place, set or lay under; set to or apply under; to bring under, subject, subdue; expose; to bring on, furnish, sīnferōto carry, bring, put, place, or throw in, into, to, or upon somewhere or something; insert; to bring forward, introduce,
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
kindle
PROP. accendere: inflammare (to set on fire; both words as well for the purpose of lighting, as for consuming): incendere: inflammare et incendere: succendere (to kindle, set on fire, for the purpose of consuming; succendere, to kindle below): alicui rei ignem injicere, inferre (to set fire to anything) alicui rei ignem subjicere, subdere (to set fire under): incendium excitare in aliquid (all for the purpose of destroying anything by fire). To kindle a fire, ignem accendere (Verg., Aen., 5, 4): ignem facere (to make a fire, as Caes., B.C., 3, 30, ignes fieri prohibuit, he allowed no fires to be made). Vid: To LIGHT; and for the improper sense, To INFLAME.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for kindle?
- The usual Latin words for “kindle” are accendō, īnflammō, incendō; also succendō, subdō, īnferō. 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.