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See also: incisé
English
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Incised_votive_plaque%2C_Nippur.jpg/220px-Incised_votive_plaque%2C_Nippur.jpg)
Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle French inciser.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ɪnˈsaɪz/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -aɪz
Verb
[edit]incise (third-person singular simple present incises, present participle incising, simple past and past participle incised)
- (transitive) To cut in or into with a sharp instrument; to carve; to engrave.
- 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 5:
- The executioner’s blade is incised with Christ’s crown of thorns, and with the words of a prayer.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to cut in or into
References
[edit]- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “incise”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Further reading
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Ellipsis of proposition incise.
Noun
[edit]incise f (plural incises)
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]incise
- inflection of inciser:
Further reading
[edit]- “incise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Verb
[edit]incise
- third-person singular past historic of incidere
Etymology 2
[edit]Participle
[edit]incise f pl
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Participle
[edit]incīse
References
[edit]- “incise”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “incise”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- incise in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Portuguese
[edit]Verb
[edit]incise
- inflection of incisar:
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