incus

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin incūs (“anvil”).

Pronunciation

Noun

incus (plural incudes)

  1. (anatomy) A small anvil-shaped bone in the middle ear.
    • 2010, Elaine N. Marieb, Katja Hoehn, Human Anatomy & Physiology, 8th edition, page 576:
      The tympanic cavity is spanned by the three smallest bones in the body: the auditory ossicles […] These bones, named for their shape, are the malleus (malʹe-us; "hammer"); the incus (ingʹkus; "anvil"); and the stapes (staʹpēz; "stirrup").
  2. (meteorology) an accessory cloud, in the shape of an anvil which forms by spreading at the top of a cumulonimbus.

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Etymology

From Latin incūs (“anvil”).

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  • Hyphenation: in‧cus

Noun

incus (plural incudes)

  1. (anatomy) incus
    Synonym: aambeeld

French

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Noun

incus m (plural incus)

  1. (anatomy) incus
    Synonym: enclume

Latin

incūs (anvil)

Etymology 1

From incūdō (“forge, fabricate”) +‎ -s, from in- + cūdō.

Pronunciation

Noun

incūs f (genitive incūdis); third declension

  1. anvil
Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative incūs incūdēs
genitive incūdis incūdum
dative incūdī incūdibus
accusative incūdem incūdēs
ablative incūde incūdibus
vocative incūs incūdēs
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Etymology 2

New Latin; from Spanish, from Quechua inka (“emperor, male of royal blood”).

Adjective

incus (feminine inca, neuter incum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. Incan
Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative incus inca incum incī incae inca
genitive incī incae incī incōrum incārum incōrum
dative incō incae incō incīs
accusative incum incam incum incōs incās inca
ablative incō incā incō incīs
vocative ince inca incum incī incae inca

References

  • “incus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “incus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "incus", 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)
  • incus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “incus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “incus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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