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conflagration

noun
/ˌkɒnfləˈɡɹeɪʃən/

Etymology

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”).

  1. derived from cōnflagrātiō

Definitions

  1. A large fire extending to many objects, or over a large space

    A large fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning.

    • It took sixty firefighters to put out the conflagration.
    • And back to hell his way did he take, / For the Devil thought by a slight mistake / It was general conflagration.

  2. A large-scale conflict.

  3. 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for conflagration. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA