🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

inflamado

Pronunciation / Transliteration: inflamado

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Inflamed/ɪnˈfleɪmd/
adjectiveCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"A garganta dele estava muito inflamada."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Red, swollen, and hot, especially as the result of an infection or injury.

    "The cut on his hand became red and inflamed."
  2. 2

    Aroused or excited with intense feeling or passion.

    "The crowd grew increasingly inflamed by the politician's speech."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Late Middle English: from Latin inflammatus, past participle of inflammare 'to set on fire', from in- 'into, upon' + flamma 'flame'.

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