inferno
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noun
- A place or situation resembling Hell.
- A large fire; a conflagration.
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From Italian inferno (“hell”), from Latin infernus (“of the lower regions”), inferna (“the lower regions”); see infernal. The meaning "big fire" came as a figurative use from the traditional idea of hellfire.
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