conflagration
AI In plain words
Writing a short explanation…
Written by a house AI from the entry below, in your language. The entry itself is the source.
conflagration
- /ˌkɒnfləˈɡɹeɪʃən/
Rhymes with -eɪʃən
Where it comes from
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der.
Proto-Italic *flagrosder.?
Latin flagrō
Latin cōnflagrō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin cōnflagrātiōder.
Middle Frenchbor.
English conflagration
From Middle French, from Latin cōnflagrātiō (“burning, conflagration”).
noun conflagrations
- A large fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning. It took sixty firefighters to put out the conflagration.
- A large-scale conflict. This was well brought out in the skillfully conducted campaigns by the various governments in appealing to the masses with their characteristic suggestible subconsciousness, stirring to the very depths the reflex consciousness of gregarious man by all sorts of direct and indirect suggestions of fear
- A situation of great passion or emotion. I thought it only an amourette when you told me. It was a fire — a conflagration; subdue it.
