incisor

English

Etymology

Borrowing from New Latin incīsor, from incīdō (“to cut into, cut through”) +‎ -tor (“-er, -or”, agent noun suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈsaɪ.zə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -aɪzə(ɹ)

Noun

incisor (plural incisors)

1. (anatomy, zootomy) A narrow-edged tooth at the front of the mouth of mammals, between the canines and adapted for cutting; in humans there are four in each jaw.

Derived terms

• nasoincisor

Related terms

• incise
• incision

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kh₂eyd- (0 c, 76 e)

Translations

narrow-edged tooth

• Arabic: قَاطِعَة f (qāṭiʕa)
• Armenian: կտրիչ ատամ (ktričʻ atam)
• Bajau:

  West Coast Bajau: impon kapak

• Bulgarian: резе́ц (bg) m (rezéc)
• Catalan: incisiva f, dent incisiva f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 門牙 / 门牙 (zh) (ményá), 門齒 / 门齿 (zh) (ménchǐ)

• Czech: řezák (cs) m
• Danish: fortand (da) c
• Dutch: snijtand (nl) m
• Esperanto: incizivo, tranĉodento
• Finnish: etuhammas (fi)
• French: incisive (fr) f
• Galician: incisivo (gl) m, pa (gl)
• Georgian: საჭრელი კბილი (sač̣reli ḳbili)
• German: Schneidezahn (de) m
• Greek: κοπτήρας (el) m (koptíras), τομεύς (el) m (toméfs), τομέας (el) m (toméas)
• Hebrew: חוֹתֶכֶת f (ḥotechét)
• Hungarian: metszőfog (hu)
• Icelandic: framtönn (is) f
• Ido: incizivo (io)
• Inuktitut: ᓯᕗᐊᑦ (sifoat)
• Italian: incisivo (it) m
• Japanese: 門歯 (ja) (もんし, monshi)
• Korean: 앞니 (ko) (amni), 문치 (munchi)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: diranê pêşî m

• Macedonian: секач m (sekač)
• Malay: gigi kacip
• Māori: niho tapahi, pākirikiri (on the lower jaw only)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fortann (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: framtann f

• Persian: دندان پیش (dandân-e piš)
• Polish: siekacz (pl) m
• Portuguese: incisivo (pt) m
• Romanian: incisiv (ro) m
• Russian: резе́ц (ru) m (rezéc)
• Scottish Gaelic: clàr-fhiacaill f
• Slovak: rezák
• Slovene: sekalec (sl) m
• Spanish: diente incisivo m, incisivo (es) m, cortador (es) m, incisor m
• Swedish: framtand (sv) c, incisiv (sv) c
• Tagalog: ngiping harap
• Thai: ฟันตัด (fan-dtàt)
• Turkish: kesici diş
• Vietnamese: răng cửa (vi)
• Volapük: kötatut, beitatut (vo)
• Welsh: dant blaen m

References

• “incisor”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “incisor”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

• Cirinos, Corsini

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin incīdō

Proto-Indo-European *-tōr

Proto-Italic *-tōr

Latin -tor

Latin incīsor

From incīdō (“to cut into, cut through”) + -tor (“-er, -or”, agent noun suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪŋˈkiː.sɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [in̠ʲˈt͡ʃiː.s̬or]

Noun

incīsor m (genitive incīsōris); third declension (New Latin)

1. (anatomy, zootomy) incisor

Inflection

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	incīsor	incīsōrēs
genitive	incīsōris	incīsōrum
dative	incīsōrī	incīsōribus
accusative	incīsōrem	incīsōrēs
ablative	incīsōre	incīsōribus
vocative	incīsor	incīsōrēs

Descendants

• → English: incisor