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arson

noun

ar·​son ˈär-sᵊn How to pronounce arson (audio)
: the willful or malicious burning of property (such as a building) especially with criminal or fraudulent intent
Arson was determined to be the cause of the fire.
arsonist noun
arsonous adjective

Example Sentences

The cause of the fire has not yet been determined, but investigators suspect arson. The town has suffered a rash of arson attacks. The town has suffered a rash of arsons.
Recent Examples on the Web Nautica Turner, 27, pleaded guilty in February to a felony charge of conspiracy to commit arson. Paul Best, Fox News, 9 Aug. 2022 No one was injured, and the woman was arrested and charged with arson. Neelam Bohra, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2022 No one was injured, and the woman was arrested and charged with arson. New York Times, 7 Aug. 2022 Mays is facing a court martial, and was charged with aggravated arson and the willful hazarding of a vessel. Arkansas Online, 16 July 2022 Kathryn Bassignana, 34, and Cruz Rivas, 37, are both charged with arson. Jacob Beltran, San Antonio Express-News, 22 June 2022 Three Clayton County teenagers were arrested late Wednesday and charged with arson for allegedly destroying three historic Morrow homes, according to police. Alexis Stevens, ajc, 9 June 2022 The flames were put out around 10:30 p.m. The New York Police Department tells PEOPLE Lambert was arrested and charged with arson. Charmaine Patterson, PEOPLE.com, 9 Mar. 2022 As a result of such conspiracy theories, 2020 saw a rash of cell tower arson reminiscent of the Luddites – textile workers in 19th-century England who sabotaged new mechanical looms that were putting them out of work. Steven Jones, The Conversation, 22 Aug. 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

borrowed from Anglo-French arsun, arson, arsoun "fire, willful setting of a destructive fire, burn on the skin, branding," going back to Gallo-Romance *ārsiōn-, ārsiō, from Latin ārdēre (perfect and supine stem ārs-) "to catch fire, burn, blaze" + -tiōn-, -tiō, suffix of verbal action — more at ardent

Note: Outside of Anglo-French, arsun, arson (with a by-form arsion) is sparsely attested in Old and Middle French. Französisches etymologisches Wörterbuch notes that medieval attestations and later survivals are markedly regional (west and southwest France, including Normandy and Francophone Brittany). — The normal suffix of verbal action in later classical Latin and Late Latin was -tiōn-, -tiō, added to the verbal base (competing with the u-stem suffix -tus more common in earlier Latin), with the exception of a small number of formations with -iōn-, -iō (see condition entry 1, legion entry 1, region). Because the phonetic stem changes conditioned by the verbal adjective/past participle suffix -tus (Indo-European *-tos) are identical to those conditioned by -tiōn-, -tiō, new formations with this suffix in post-classical Latin and proto-Romance copy the morphophonemic alterations of the verbal adjective. This is evident in *ārsiō, formed from ārdēre. Note that the perfect ārsī and presumed (?) supine ārsum are most likely themselves analogical forms based on second-conjugation verbs such as mansī, mansum (from manēre "to wait, remain"), given that ārdēre (from āridus, ārdus "dry") cannot be of great antiquity in Latin.

First Known Use

circa 1680, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of arson was circa 1680

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