inca

inca

See also: Inca, încă, and ınca

English

A collared inca

Etymology

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Noun

inca (plural incas)

1. Any of several species of hummingbirds in the genus Coeligena

Derived terms

Derived terms

• black inca
• bronzy inca
• brown inca
• collared inca
• Gould's inca

Anagrams

• -cain-, Cain, NACI, NIAC, Nica, cain

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈiŋ.kə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈiŋ.ka/

Noun

inca m or f (plural inques)

1. Inca

Related terms

• incaic

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French

Adjective

inca (plural incas)

1. Incan

Noun

inca m (plural incas)

1. inca (bird)

Further reading

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

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈin.ka/
• Rhymes: -inka
• Hyphenation: ìn‧ca

Adjective

inca (invariable)

1. Inca

Noun

inca m or f by sense (invariable)

1. Inca

Anagrams

• Cina, Nicà, acni, cani

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Latin

Adjective

inca

1. inflection of incus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

incā

1. ablative feminine singular of incus

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Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *inkô (“ache, regret”), from Proto-Indo-European *yenǵ- (“illness”). Cognate with Old Frisian jinc (“angered”), Old Norse ekki (“pain, grief”), Norwegian ekkje (“lack, pity”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈin.kɑ/, [ˈiŋ.kɑ]

Noun

inca m

1. doubt, uncertainty, question, suspicion, fear
2. cause for complaint, offense, ill-will, grievance, grudge; quarrel
3. opportunity, occasion

Declension

Declension of inca (weak)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	inca	incan
accusative	incan	incan
genitive	incan	incena
dative	incan	incum

Descendants

• Middle English: inke
  • ⇒ Middle English: inklen, inclen
    • English: inkle
    • ⇒ Middle English: *ynklyng, nyngkiling
      • English: inkling
      • Scots: inklin

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Romanian

Adjective

inca m or f or n (indeclinable)

1. Alternative form of incas

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Spanish

Alternative forms

• inka

Etymology

Borrowed from Quechua inka.

Noun

inca m or f (plural incas)

1. Inca

Derived terms

• incaico
• incásico

Further reading

• “inca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014