arson
/ˈɑːsən/noun
mass noun
- the criminal act of deliberately setting fire to property纵火, 纵火罪：
police are treating the fire as arson
警方把这次火灾作为纵火案处理
as modifier an arson attack.火攻。
派生词
arsonist
noun词源
late 17th cent.: an Anglo-Norman French legal term， from medieval Latin arsio（n-）， from Latin ardere 'to burn'.