FLAME Copy link • FLAME 1. s. flamma (PROP. and IMPROP.; e.g., flamma amoris, belli, oratoris): ardor (glow, PROP. and IMPROP. = an ardently beloved object; Vid: Ov., Met., 14, 683; diminutive, flammula): ignis (fire, PROP. and IMPROP.): to be, etc., in flames [Vid: FIRE]: the flame (of ambition) is increasing, flamma crescit (Sall., Jug., 4, 4). The flame of war is kindled in Africa, Africa ardet bello. To set in (a) flame, inflammare, incendere (PROP. and figuratively). Vid: FIRE. 2. v. flammare (e.g., flammans fenum, PROP. flammantia lumina, Verg., for which Ovid has flammea lumina): ardere (to burn): flagrare (to be in a blaze): flammigerare (to break out into flames, Gell., 17, 10). Vid: also To BURN.