English
incendious
Incendious comes from Latin incendiosus ‘burning, hot’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEincendiosus‘burning, hot’
- Englishearliest quotation 1824incendious
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEincendiosus‘burning, hot’
- Englishearliest quotation 1824incendious
Earliest quotation: 1824, John Dunn Hunter: “the pillage of their property, and the incendious destruction…”
Every English word from Latin incendiosus
Today it means
adj Promoting faction or contention; seditious; inflammatory.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin incendiosus / incendious