incise

See also: incisé

English

Incised votive plaque, Nippur

Alternative forms

• encise

Etymology

From Middle French inciser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈsaɪz/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɪz

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.
   • 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 5:

     The executioner’s blade is incised with Christ’s crown of thorns, and with the words of a prayer.

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kh₂eyd-‎ (0 c, 31 e)

Translations

to cut in or into

• Bulgarian: врязвам (bg) (vrjazvam), издълбавам (bg) (izdǎlbavam), гравирам (bg) (graviram)
• Finnish: leikata (fi); kaivertaa (fi) (to engrave)
• Maori: pākati

Further reading

• incise on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• scenii

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.siz/

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

• “incise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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

• -cinesi, Cinesi, censii, cinesi, cinesi-, incesi

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