incus
English
Location of the incus
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin incūs (“anvil”).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈɪŋ.kəs/
- Rhymes: -ɪŋkəs
Noun
incus (plural incudes)
- (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").
- 2010, Elaine N. Marieb & Katja Hoehn, Human Anatomy & Physiology, 8th edition, page 576
- (meteorology) an accessory cloud, in the shape of an anvil which forms by spreading at the top of a cumulonimbus.
Synonyms
- (bone in the middle ear): anvil
- (cloud): anvil, thunderhead
Related terms
- incudal
Translations
anvil — see anvil
accessory cloud in the shape of an anvil — see thunderhead
Anagrams
- NICUs, U.S. Inc, usnic
Afrikaans
From Latin incūs (“anvil”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
incus (plural incudes)
- (anatomy) incus
Synonyms
- aambeeld
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛ̃.kys/
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Noun
incus m (plural incus)
- (anatomy) incus
- Synonym: enclume
Latin
incūs (anvil)
Etymology 1
From incūdō (“forge, fabricate”), from in- + cūdō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈin.kuːs/, [ˈɪŋkuːs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈin.kus/, [ˈiŋkus]
Noun
incūs f (genitive incūdis); third declension
- anvil
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | incūs | incūdēs |
| Genitive | incūdis | incūdum |
| Dative | incūdī | incūdibus |
| Accusative | incūdem | incūdēs |
| Ablative | incūde | incūdibus |
| Vocative | incūs | incūdēs |
Descendants
- Asturian: xunque
- Basque: ingude
- Catalan: enclusa
- Dalmatian: ancusene
- English: incus
- French: enclume
- Friulian: incuin
- Galician: engra
- Italian: incudine
- Maltese: inkwina
- Ladin: ancúgn
- Occitan: enclutge
- Portuguese: incude
- Romansch: inchüna, anchüna
- Sardinian: incódina, incódine, incúdina, alcútina
- Sicilian: ncùnia
- Spanish: yunque
- Venetian: ancùxene
- Walloon: eglome
Etymology 2
New Latin; from Spanish, from Quechua inka (“emperor, male of royal blood”).
Adjective
incus (feminine inca, neuter incum); first/second-declension adjective
- Incan
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | incus | inca | incum | incī | incae | inca | |
| Genitive | incī | incae | incī | incōrum | incārum | incōrum | |
| Dative | incō | incō | incīs | ||||
| Accusative | incum | incam | incum | incōs | incās | inca | |
| Ablative | incō | incā | incō | incīs | |||
| Vocative | ince | inca | incum | incī | incae | inca | |
Related terms
- 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