infern

Inherited from Latin īnfernus. First attested in the 12th century.^[1]

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [iɱˈfɛrn]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [iɱˈfɛɾn]

infern m (plural inferns)

1. hell

• infernal

• “infern”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “infern”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “infern” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “infern” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• nfern (chiefly informal, after a vowel)

Borrowed from Sicilian nfernu and/or Italian inferno, both from Latin infernus.

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈfɛrn/

infern m

1. hell

   Antonyms: ġenna, sema

Borrowed from Latin infernus.

infern m

1. hell, inferno

   Synonyms: hel, hellia

• fern

Borrowed from Italian inferno, Latin infernus.

• IPA^(key): /inˈfern/

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infern n (plural infernuri)

1. hell (place where the souls of dead sinners are to be tortured eternally)

   Synonyms: iad, gheenă, tartar, hades, orc

2. (figurative) hell, inferno (agonizing situation)