{"id":24166,"date":"2025-08-14T11:09:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T11:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=24166"},"modified":"2025-08-14T11:10:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T11:10:36","slug":"inflammablity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=24166","title":{"rendered":"Inflammability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something that is not divisible is <strong>indivisible<\/strong> and something that is not accurate is <strong>inaccurate<\/strong>, yet something that is <strong>inflammable<\/strong> can be burnt. Why is that? Let&#8217;s find out.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/colink\/3574514507\/in\/photolist-6rSjCt-CuWbS-4u62yp-hvooF-pBPwEm-2kHuTRZ-2kHrgqf-2rijVdu-2ohj75-2nv6hD4-DoidWM-4WxnNF-ce7H2U-75CPAi-2kN2ho4-4WAUbo-8fMDXW-4X13jv-pBDoP-93z5QE-nqxeX8-4X5kEQ-4X13r2-58ss68-4X13sT-4X13nF-4X13fZ-bcYoh4-5Dn6pg-qYsyTw-oZnVN8-6nsppZ-qgMJHN-hw7LCm-4Fuifn-6DbsWG-5DBcnN-75GFQy-4X13zr-75GG2m-8Y28uP-6nspo4-bQx9t-9qknYy-JDUFj6-4yDXJ7-LoAVx-VnrpJZ-KLVqu-k7QkcB\" title=\"Flammable Inflamable Inflammable\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/3317\/3574514507_2aa8651f15_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"475\" alt=\"Flammable Inflamable Inflammable\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The word <strong>inflammable<\/strong> [\u026an\u02c8fl\u00e6m\u0259b\u0259l] means:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Capable of burning<\/li>\n<li>Easily set on fire<\/li>\n<li>Easily excited; set off by the slightest excuse; easily enraged or inflamed. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It can also mean the opposite: Incapable of burning; not easily set on fire. It comes from Middle French <em>inflammable<\/em>, from Medieval Latin <em>\u012bnflamm\u0101bilis<\/em>, from Latin <em>\u012bnflamm\u0101re<\/em> (to set on fire), from <em>in-<\/em> (in, on) &#038; <em>flamma<\/em> (flame) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/inflammable#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>A related word, <strong>(to) inflame<\/strong> means to set on fire, to kindle, to cause to burn, flame or glow, to put in a state of inflammation, or to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, and something that is <strong>inflammable<\/strong> can be <strong>inflamed<\/strong> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/inflame#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Other related words include <strong>inflammation<\/strong> in English , <strong>infiammare<\/strong> (to set fire to, to inflame, stir up or flush sth) in Italian, <strong>inflamar<\/strong> (to inflame, catch fire) in Portuguese, and <strong>inflamar<\/strong> (to inflame, ignite) in Spanish [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/inflammo#Latin\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The word <strong>flammable<\/strong> is a back-formation from <strong>inflammable<\/strong> and means capable of burning, easily set of fire, or extremely contentious. The prefix <strong>in-\/im-<\/strong> is often used like <strong>un-<\/strong> and <strong>non-<\/strong> to negate the meaning of words, such as <strong>unaware<\/strong> and <strong>non-abrasive<\/strong>. It doesn&#8217;t have this meaning in <strong>inflammable<\/strong>, but to avoid confusion, the word <strong>flammable<\/strong> was coined [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/inflammable#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Other words that can be used to indicate that something is not easily set on fire include <strong>non-flammable<\/strong>, <strong>noninflammable<\/strong>, <strong>unflammable<\/strong>, <strong>uninflammable<\/strong>, <strong>incombustible<\/strong>, <strong>non-combustible<\/strong>, <strong>not flammable<\/strong> and <strong>fireproof<\/strong> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/flammable#English\">source<\/a>]. <\/p>\n<p>In French and Spanish, something that can be burnt is <strong>inflammable<\/strong>, while something that cannot be burnt is <strong>ininflammable<\/strong>, and there&#8217;s a similar word in Italian: <strong>ininfiammabile<\/strong> &#8211; a nice pile up of prefixes! [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/flammable#English\">source<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>More on <strong>inflammable<\/strong> v <strong>flammable<\/strong>:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/grammar\/flammable-or-inflammable\">https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/grammar\/flammable-or-inflammable<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Combustibility_and_flammability\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Combustibility_and_flammability<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanesepod101.com\/member\/go.php?r=759259&amp;i=b0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/banners\/banner_japanesepod.jpg\" alt=\"The Fastest Way to Learn Japanese Guaranteed with JapanesePod101.com\" width=\"630\" height=\"83\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-5001128073855040\"\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Blog horizontal --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5001128073855040\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"1685480124\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something that is not divisible is indivisible and something that is not accurate is inaccurate, yet something that is inflammable can be burnt. Why is that? Let&#8217;s find out. The word inflammable [\u026an\u02c8fl\u00e6m\u0259b\u0259l] means: Capable of burning Easily set on fire Easily excited; set off by the slightest excuse; easily enraged or inflamed. It can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,111,128,10,302,15,27,41,64,78],"tags":[164,158,479,478,309,138,281,481,318,163],"class_list":["post-24166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-italian","category-language","category-late-latin","category-latin","category-middle-french","category-portuguese","category-spanish","category-words-and-phrases","tag-english","tag-etymology","tag-flammable","tag-inflammable","tag-italian","tag-language","tag-omniglot","tag-prefixes","tag-spanish","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24166"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24172,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24166\/revisions\/24172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}