ignis

== Catalan == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central, Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈiŋ.nis] === Adjective === ignis masculine plural of igni == Latin == === Etymology === Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥gʷnís (“fire”). The exact phonological development of this term is slightly unclear. De Vaan suggests that Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥gʷnís yielded *Həngni-, whence *engni- or *ingni-, which dissimilated into *egni- or *igni-. This term constitutes an issue for the Latin sound law *CCCC > CaCCC, leading Schrijver to argue that *h₁ must have lost phonemic status by the time of epenthesis. Thus, Schrijver ultimately suggests a development *h₁n̥gʷni- > *h₁əngʷni- > *əngʷni- > ignis. In any case, the term displaced Proto-Italic *pūr. Cognate with Lithuanian ugnis, Sanskrit अग्नि (agní), Hittite 𒀀𒀝𒉌𒅖 (akniš) (an Indo-Iranian borrowing), Old Church Slavonic огнь (ognĭ) and Old Prussian ugnis. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɪŋ.nɪs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈiɲ.ɲis] === Noun === ignis m (genitive ignis); third declension fire ferrō ignīque ― with iron and with fire (metonymic) beacon, signal by fire ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -ī or occasionally -e). ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Italian: igne === References === “ignis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “ignis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "ignis", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “ignis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. Leppänen, Ville (2019), Ablaut and the Latin Verb: Aspects of Morphophonological Change (PhD Dissertation)‎[2], Munich: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, →DOI, page 136: “*h₁gʷni- ‘fire’ > *engni- > *eŋni- > Lat. ignis”