# infero
## Esperanto
### Etymology

From Latin īnferus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [inˈfero]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ero
* Hyphenation: in‧fe‧ro

### Noun

infero (accusative singular inferon, plural inferoj, accusative plural inferojn)
* hell (place where damned souls are eternally punished)
    Antonym: ĉielo (“heaven”)
** 1908, L. L. Zamenhof, La rabistoj: dramo en kvin aktoj, Paris: Hachette, translation of Die Räuber by Friedrich Schiller, page 10:Pli bone estas iri seninfana en la ĉielon, ol se ambaŭ, la patro kaj la filo, iras en la inferon.It's better to go childless into heaven, than if both, the father and the son, go into hell.

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin īnferus (“low”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *n̥dʰér.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈin.fe.ro/
* Rhymes: -infero
* Hyphenation: ìn‧fe‧ro

### Adjective

infero (feminine infera, masculine plural inferi, feminine plural infere)
* (literary) low, deep
    Synonym: imo
* (figurative, rare) underworldly, infernal, chthonian
    Synonyms: ctonio, infernale, ipogeo
* (botany) inferior (of an ovary)

#### Related terms

* imo
* inferiore
* infimo

### Anagrams

* Noferi, ferino

## Latin
### Etymology

From in- (“in, at, on; into”) +‎ ferō (“bear, carry; suffer”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈin.fe.roː/, [ˈĩːfɛroː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈin.fe.ro/, [ˈiɱfero]

### Verb

īnferō (present infinitive īnferre, perfect active intulī, supine illātum); third conjugation, irregular
* to carry, bring, put, place, or throw in, into, to, or upon somewhere or something; insert
    Synonyms: īnserō, īnsertō, intrōferō, immittō, intrōdūcō, invehō, implicō
    Antonyms: excipiō, ēiciō, extrahō
* to bring forward, introduce, produce, cause, occasion, inspire
* to set fire to; offer, sacrifice, render
* to bury, bring to a place for burial, inter
* (of a tribute or tax) to pay, furnish
* (military) to advance, march, move forward
    Synonyms: prōgredior, prōdeō, prōcēdō, eō, pergō, prŏficīscor, obeō, occurrō, adeō, subeō, gradior, vādō
* (military) to bear the standards against the enemy, attack, make an attack upon; wage war on
    Gigantes bellum dis intulerunt ― The giants waged war against the gods (Cicero)
** 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I.2:Aeneae Latinoque bellum intuleratHe waged war against the Aeneas and Latinus
* (figuratively) to bring forward, introduce; produce, occasion, make; conclude; import
* (figuratively, with dative) to cause, inflict, impose
    Synonyms: indō, pariō, offerō, ēdō, importō, addūcō, afferō, efficiō, iniciō
* to conclude, infer, draw an inference, to refer to
    Synonym: dēdūcō

#### Derived terms

* illātiō
* illātīvus
* illātus
* īnferibilis (New Latin)

#### Related terms

* adferō, afferō
* auferō
* circumferō
* cōnferō
* dēferō
* differō
* efferō
* ferō
* interferō
* intrōferō
* offerō
* perferō
* postferō
* praeferō
* praeterferor
* prōferō
* referō
* sufferō
* trānsferō

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: inferir
* → English: infer
* → French: inférer
* → Italian: inferire
* → Portuguese: inferir
* → Spanish: inferir

### References

* “infero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “infero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* infero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to set fire to houses: ignem tectis inferre, subicere to lay violent hands on a person: manus inicere, inferre, afferre alicui to bring mishap, ruin on a person: calamitatem, pestem inferre alicui to recklessly hazard one's life: in periculum capitis, in discrimen vitae se inferre to do harm to, injure any one: damnum inferre, afferre alicui to damage a person's character, bring him into bad odour: infamiam alicui inferre, aspergere to retard, delay a thing: moram alicui rei afferre, inferre, facere to wrong a person: iniuriam inferre, facere alicui to do violence to a person: vim inferre alicui to turn the conversation on to a certain subject: sermonem inferre de aliqua re to invade: bellum inferre alicui (Att. 9. 1. 3) to be the aggressor in a war; to act on the offensive: bellum or arma ultro inferre to set fire to the siege-works: ignem inferre operibus (B. C. 2. 14) to march on the enemy: gradum inferre in hostem to attack the enemy: signa inferre in hostem to inflict a defeat on the enemy: cladem hostibus afferre, inferre