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incensa

incensa is a Latin form of incendo, meaning “set on fire, burn; inflame, rouse”.

It can also be a form of incensum, “incense; sacrifice (w/incense/burning victims); lighting (L+S)”. It is the nominative plural neuter noun or perfect passive participle nominative plural neuter or perfect passive participle vocative plural neuter.

Found 59 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.3.186: … um adventu myoparonum classis pulcherrima, Siciliae praesidium propugnaculumque provinciae, piratarum manibus incensa est? an quod ager Syracusanus praedonum incendiis te praetore vastatus est? an quod forum Syracusanum nauarch …

Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 24.3.3: Incensa denique urbe (ut memoratum est), constructo tribunali insistens, actis gratiis exercitui convocato, cunctos a …

All forms of incendo (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.