incus

== English == === 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. (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 ==== === Anagrams === NICUs, usnic, U.S. Inc, Cusin, cu ins == Afrikaans == === Alternative forms === inkus === Etymology === From Latin incūs (“anvil”). === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: in‧cus === Noun === incus (plural incudes) (anatomy) incus Synonym: aambeeld == French == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɛ̃.kys/ === Noun === incus m (invariable) (anatomy) incus Synonym: enclume == Latin == === Etymology 1 === From incūdō (“forge, fabricate”) +‎ -s, from in- + cūdō. ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɪŋ.kuːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈiŋ.kus] ==== Noun ==== incūs f (genitive incūdis); third declension anvil ===== Declension ===== Third-declension noun. ===== Descendants ===== === 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. ===== 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, 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