incite

See also: incité

English

Etymology

Middle French inciter, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin incitare (“to set in motion, hasten, urge, incite”), from in (“in, on”) + citare (“to set in motion, urge”), frequentative of ciere (“to rouse, excite, call”).

Pronunciation

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• enPR: ĭn.sīt', IPA^(key): /ɪnˈsaɪt/

Verb

1. (transitive) To stir up or excite; to rouse or goad into action.

   The judge was told by the accused that his friends had incited him to commit the crime.

Related terms

• incitement
• inciteful
• incitive

Translations

to rouse, stir up or excite

• Armenian: դրդել (hy) (drdel)
• Bulgarian: подбуждам (bg) (podbuždam), стимулирам (bg) (stimuliram)
• Catalan: incitar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 煽起 (shānqǐ)

• Dutch: aanzetten (nl), ophitsen (nl)
• Esperanto: inciti
• Finnish: yllyttää (fi), kiihottaa (fi), kannustaa (fi)
• French: inciter (fr)

• Galician: incinir, imbelicar, bezar, demerxer, enfoutar, encirrar (gl), apurrar (gl), enxibar, estrizar, isar, istar, enridar, atouzar (gl), envizcar
• German: anstacheln (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἐρεθίζω (erethízō), ὄρνυμι (órnumi)

• Irish: spreag, fadaigh
• Japanese: 扇ぐ (ja) (あおぐ, aogu), 嗾ける (ja) (けしかける, keshikakeru)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Kurdish: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
• Latin: incitō
• Maori: whakakā, tuata (by means of ritual), akiaki, ueue, whakatari
• Occitan: incitar (oc)
• Old English: bǣdan
• Persian: انگیزاندن (angizândan), شوراندن (fa) (šurândan)
• Polish: podżegać (pl) impf
• Portuguese: incitar (pt), provocar (pt)
• Quechua: hatarichiy
• Romanian: incita (ro), ațâța (ro), stârni (ro)
• Russian: подстрека́ть (ru) (podstrekátʹ), подбива́ть (ru) (podbivátʹ), разжига́ть (ru) (razžigátʹ) (e.g. hatred)
• Spanish: incitar (es), concitar (es)
• Turkish: kışkırtmak (tr)

Further reading

• “incite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “incite”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “incite”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• intice

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French

Verb

incite

1. first-person singular present indicative of inciter
2. third-person singular present indicative of inciter
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of inciter
4. second-person singular imperative of inciter

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Portuguese

Verb

incite

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Spanish

Verb

incite

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of incitar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of incitar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of incitar.