incenso

See also: incensó and incensò

Esperanto

Etymology

Common Romance, ultimately from Latin incensum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [inˈt͡senso]
• Rhymes: -enso
• Hyphenation: in‧cen‧so

Noun

incenso (uncountable, accusative incenson)

1. incense

Galician

Etymology 1

From older jnçenso, ençenço, from Old Galician-Portuguese encensso (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), a semi-learned borrowing from Late Latin incensum, from Latin incensus.

Alternative forms

• inxenzo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inˈθenso̝/, /inˈθɛnso̝/
• Hyphenation: in‧cen‧so

Noun

incenso m (plural incensos)

1. incense
   • 1350, K. M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 150:

     Sabede que ẽno mũdo nõ ha jnçenso nẽ frol nẽ balsamo nẽ outra cousa que tã bõo olor aja cõmo esta pẽna.

     You must know that there is not in the world an incense, flower, balsam, or any other thing, that has such a good smell as this pelt

   • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Rufus, Jordanus: Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 125:

     filla o pez grego et a rrjzjna et o ençenço branco que chaman macho et almeçega et ia quanto sange de dragon

     take the Greek tar and the ricin and the white incense, that they call male, and musk and then also dragon's blood

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “encensso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “nçenç”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “nçens”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “incenso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “incenso”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “incenso”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology 2

Verb

incenso

1. first-person singular present indicative of incensar

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto incenso.

Noun

incenso (uncountable)

1. incense

Derived terms

• incensagar (“to cense”)

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inˈt͡ʃɛn.so/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnso
• Hyphenation: in‧cèn‧so

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Late Latin incēnsum, from Latin incēnsus.

Noun

incenso m (plural incensi)

1. incense

Related terms

• incensiere

Etymology 2

Verb

incenso

1. first-person singular present indicative of incensare

References

• incenso in Collins Italian-English Dictionary

Anagrams

• innesco, innescò, insceno, inscenò

Latin

Etymology 1

Participle

incēnsō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of incēnsus

Etymology 2

Verb

incēnsō

1. (Old Latin) first-person singular sigmatic future active indicative of incendō

Usage notes

See explanation at incendō.

Portuguese

incenso

Etymology 1

Modified, based on the Latin etymology, from Old Galician-Portuguese encensso, a semi-learned borrowing from Late Latin incēnsum, from Latin incēnsus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ĩˈsẽ.su/

• Hyphenation: in‧cen‧so

Noun

incenso m (plural incensos)

1. incense

Etymology 2

Verb

incenso

1. first-person singular present indicative of incensar