incensus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of incendō.

Participle

incēnsus (feminine incēnsa, neuter incēnsum); first/second-declension participle

1. set on fire
2. burnt
3. excited

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	incēnsus	incēnsa	incēnsum		incēnsī	incēnsae	incēnsa
Genitive	incēnsī	incēnsae	incēnsī		incēnsōrum	incēnsārum	incēnsōrum
Dative	incēnsō		incēnsō		incēnsīs
Accusative	incēnsum	incēnsam	incēnsum		incēnsōs	incēnsās	incēnsa
Ablative	incēnsō	incēnsā	incēnsō		incēnsīs
Vocative	incēnse	incēnsa	incēnsum		incēnsī	incēnsae	incēnsa

Adjective

incēnsus (feminine incēnsa, neuter incēnsum); first/second-declension adjective

1. unregistered, not enrolled in census

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	incēnsus	incēnsa	incēnsum		incēnsī	incēnsae	incēnsa
Genitive	incēnsī	incēnsae	incēnsī		incēnsōrum	incēnsārum	incēnsōrum
Dative	incēnsō		incēnsō		incēnsīs
Accusative	incēnsum	incēnsam	incēnsum		incēnsōs	incēnsās	incēnsa
Ablative	incēnsō	incēnsā	incēnsō		incēnsīs
Vocative	incēnse	incēnsa	incēnsum		incēnsī	incēnsae	incēnsa

Noun

incēnsus m (genitive incēnsūs); fourth declension

1. incense
2. fire

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	incēnsus	incēnsūs
Genitive	incēnsūs	incēnsuum
Dative	incēnsuī	incēnsibus
Accusative	incēnsum	incēnsūs
Ablative	incēnsū	incēnsibus
Vocative	incēnsus	incēnsūs

Descendants

• Catalan: encens, encès
• Old French: encens
  • French: encens
  • → English: incense
• Galician: incenso
• Italian: incenso
• Norman: enchens
• Occitan: encés
• Old Galician-Portuguese: encensso
• Old Spanish: enceso
• Portuguese: incenso
• Romansch: intschains
• Romanian: încins
• Spanish: incienso

References

• “incensus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “incensus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• incensus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Online Latin dictionary, Olivetti
• incensus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be consumed by the fires of ambition: gloriae, laudis cupiditate incensum esse, flagrare
    
  • to be interested in, have a taste for culture: optimarum artium studio incensum esse
    
  • to be fired with love: amore captum, incensum, inflammatum esse, ardere
    
  • to long for a thing, yearn for it: desiderio alicuius rei teneri, affici (more strongly flagrare, incensum esse)
    
  • to be fired with admiration: admiratione incensum esse
    
  • to be fired with rage: ira incensum esse
    
  • in a transport of rage: furore incensus, abreptus, impulsus
    
  • with incense and perfumes: ture et odoribus incensis
    
• “incensus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “incensus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin