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conflagration

/ˌkɒnfləɡˈɹeɪʃən/kon-fluh-GRAY-shuhn
/ˌkɑnfləɡˈɹeɪʃən/kahn-fluh-GRAY-shuhn

Meaninga blazing up

Common meaning: a huge destructive blaze

‘with, together’ + ‘to blaze’ → conflagration

Journey through time

  1. Latinflagrō, flagrāre‘to blaze’
  2. Englishconflagration‘a huge destructive blaze’ · today

con- also in: convexconveyconcaveconcealconcede

flagr also in: flagrant

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
  • No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

Origin: Built on Latin flagrō ‘to blaze’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry flagrō, p. 756 · dictionary scan

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Related words

flagrant

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