BRAND Copy link • BRAND 1. fire-brand, titio (τινθός, on or taken from the hearth, where it served for warmth, heat, light): torris (torreo; the burning brand from the hearth, especially from a pile or altar, where it was consuming a corpse, victim, etc.). A burning brand, titio ardens, poetical, vivus (opposed to exstinctus). Mark of disgrace, litterarum nota (inusta), stigma. FIG., to cast a brand of infamy upon one, maculam or ignominiam or notam turpitudinis alicui inurere; aliquem ignominia notare (of the censor). For cattle, nota, signum. 2. v. To brand one, notam alicui inurere, stigma alicui inscribere, imponere. FIG. (Vid: above, to cast a brand upon). Branded (PROP.), litterarum nota or stigmatis nota inustus, stigmatias (-ae). Branded with crime, infamatus, infamie, famosus: with cowardice, ignaviae nota designatus. A branding-iron, cauterium.