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Webster 1913 Edition
Incus
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In′cus
,Noun.
[L., anvil.]
1.
An anvil.
3.
(Zool.)
The central portion of the armature of the pharynx in the
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incus
incus
English
Location of the incus
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
Translations
a small anvil-shaped bone in the middle ear
accessory cloud in the shape of an anvil — see thunderhead
Anagrams
Latin
incūs (anvil)
Etymology 1
From incūdō (“I forge, fabricate”), from in + cudere
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈin.kuːs/
Noun
incūs f (genitive incūdis); third declension
Inflection
Third declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | incūs | incūdēs |
| genitive | incūdis | incūdum |
| dative | incūdī | incūdibus |
| accusative | incūdem | incūdēs |
| ablative | incūde | incūdibus |
| vocative | incūs | incūdēs |
Descendants
Etymology 2
New Latin; from Spanish, from Quechua inka (“emperor, male of royal blood”).
Adjective
incus m (feminine inca, neuter incum); first/second declension
Inflection
First/second declension.
| 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 | |
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, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “incus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: 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