incise

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See also: incisé

English

Incised votive plaque, Nippur

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle French inciser.

Pronunciation

Verb

incise (third-person singular simple present incises, present participle incising, simple past and past participle incised)

  1. (transitive) To cut in or into with a sharp instrument; to carve; to engrave.

Derived terms

Translations

References

  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “incise”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Further reading

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Ellipsis of proposition incise.

Noun

incise f (plural incises)

  1. (grammar) a part of a sentence, set between em dashes

Etymology 2

Verb

incise

  1. inflection of inciser:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

incise

  1. third-person singular past historic of incidere

Etymology 2

Participle

incise f pl

  1. feminine plural of inciso

Anagrams

Latin

Participle

incīse

  1. vocative masculine singular of incīsus

References

  • 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

Verb

incise

  1. inflection of incisar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative