comburo

== Italian == === Verb === comburo first-person singular present indicative of comburere == Latin == === Etymology === From con- +‎ ūrō. The -b- was inserted by analogy with ambūrō. Alternatively directly from co- +‎ ambūrō. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɔmˈbuː.roː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [komˈbuː.ro] === Verb === combūrō (present infinitive combūrere, perfect active combussī, supine combustum); third conjugation to burn up to consume (with fire) to cremate to scald ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Italian: comburere → Old French: comburir → English: combust === References === “comburo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “comburo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “comburo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.