incus

Borrowed from Latin incūs (“anvil”).

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈɪŋ.kəs/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋkəs

incus (plural incudes)

1. (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").

2. (meteorology) an accessory cloud, in the shape of an anvil which forms by spreading at the top of a cumulonimbus.

• (bone in the middle ear): anvil
• (cloud): anvil, thunderhead

• incudal

• NICUs, usnic, U.S. Inc, Cusin, cu ins

• inkus

From Latin incūs (“anvil”).

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• Hyphenation: in‧cus

incus (plural incudes)

1. (anatomy) incus

   Synonym: aambeeld

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.kys/

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incus m (plural incus)

1. (anatomy) incus

   Synonym: enclume

From incūdō (“forge, fabricate”) +‎ -s, from in- + cūdō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈin.kuːs/, [ˈɪŋkuːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈin.kus/, [ˈiŋkus]

incūs f (genitive incūdis); third declension

1. anvil

Third-declension noun.

New Latin; from Spanish, from Quechua inka (“emperor, male of royal blood”).

incus (feminine inca, neuter incum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Incan

First/second-declension adjective.

• Inca

• “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