Picture a fire that has stopped being one fire. It has jumped the gap between roofs and is now the whole street, or the whole of trees. The word can be thought of as the moment a fire becomes a scene rather than an event, and everything else the word does grows out of that spreading.
可以想成一場已經不算「一處火」的火。它跳過屋頂之間的空隙，變成整條街，或整面山坡的樹。conflagration 捉住的就是火從一件事變成一整個場面的那一刻。它強調的不是燙不燙，而是「連成一片、停不下來」。這個畫面一立起來，這個字其他的用法就都是從這裡長出去的。
From the word’s history
From Middle French, from Latin cōnflagrātiō, a burning, built on cōnflagrō from con- and flagrō, to blaze.
經中古法文來自拉丁文 cōnflagrātiō（燃燒），動詞是 cōnflagrō，由 con- 加上 flagrō（燃燒）組成。
Wiktionary etymology tree for conflagration, supplied in the evidence packet: From Middle French, from Latin cōnflagrātiō (burning, conflagration); Latin con- + flagrō > cōnflagrō.
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