the first part of Dante 's poem The Divine Comedy, in which he is led through different parts of hell. The phrase "Dante's Inferno" is sometimes used to describe a place where there is a lot of fire, destruction etc
[ in-'f&r-(")nO ] (noun.) 1834. From Italian inferno (“hell”) Latin infernus (“of the lower regions”), inferna (“the lower regions”); see infernal. The meaning "big fire" came as a figurative use from the traditional idea of hellfire,