conflagrate

From cōnflāgrāt-, the perfect passive participial stem of the Latin cōnflāgrō (“I am consumed by fire”, “I set aflame”).

conflagrate (third-person singular simple present conflagrates, present participle conflagrating, simple past and past participle conflagrated)

1. (intransitive) To catch fire. [17th century to the present]
2. (transitive) To set fire to something. [17th century to the present]

• conflagration

cōnflāgrāte

1. first-person plural present active imperative of cōnflāgrō