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Latin
Etymology
From in- + quatiō (“I shake”).
Pronunciation
Verb
incutiō (present infinitive incutere, perfect active incussī, supine incussum); third conjugation iō-variant
- to strike on, against, into
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 1.69–70:
- “Incute vim ventīs submersāsque obrue puppēs,
aut age dīversōs et disice corpora pontō.”- “Strike force against with winds, sink and overwhelm ship-decks, and otherwise drive in divergent and dislocate bodies in the deepest sea.”
(Juno wants Aeolus (son of Hippotes), King of the Winds, to destroy the Trojan fleet now sailing to Italy. Note: The phrases “submersasque obrue” and “diversos et disice” both exemplify prolepsis, a reversal of the normal order of events.)
- to inspire with, inflict, excite
Conjugation
Descendants
References
- “incutio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “incutio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- incutio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to inspire fear, terror: timorem, terrorem alicui inicere, more strongly incutere
- to inspire some one with religious scruples: religionem alicui afferre, inicere, incutere