The corpus record — Latin

ignesco

to take fire

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Where it lives

Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Thebais 3 · 0.48/10k
Punica 3 · 0.39/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

ignesco — Lewis & Short

ignesco, ĕre,

I v. inch. n. (in pass. ignescitur, Laber. ap. Non. 481, 7; Fragm. Com. v. 26 Rib.) [ignis], to take fire, to become inflamed, to burn, kindle (syn.: inardesco, exardesco).

I Lit.: ex quo eventurum nostri putant, ut ad extremum omnis mundus ignesceret, * Cic. N. D. 2, 46, 118: lumen capere atque ignescere, Ov. M. 15, 847.—

B Transf., of color: purpura et candor et tertium ex utroque ignescens, kindling, breaking into a flame, Plin. 37, 2, 8, § 21. —

II Trop., to burn with passion, to glow (poet.): furiis ignescit opertis, Val. Fl. 5, 520: virgo (Pallas), Sil. 9, 460: pectora, Claud. ap. Eutr. 2, 45: Rutulo muros et castra tuenti Ignescunt irae, Verg. A. 9, 66: amor menti, Col. poët. 10, 211: odia, Stat. Th. 11, 525: vultus sanguine, id. ib. 3, 78.— *

(b) With inf.: ardore pari nisuque incurrere muris Ignescunt animi, Sil. 13, 180.

In the wild

ignescatque Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 33.3.p8
ignescentia Statius, Thebais 11.525
ignescere Ovid, Metamorphoses 15.847
ignescit Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 5.520
ignescere Claudian, In Eutropium 2.20.122
ignescunt Vergil, Aeneid 9.66

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