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Inca

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See also: inca and încă

Translingual

Etymology

Borrowed from French Inca, from Spanish inca, from Classical Quechua inka.

Coined by French entomologist Amédée Louis Michel Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau and French entomologist Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville in 1828.

Proper noun

Inca f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Scarabaeidae – certain New World scarabs.

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English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish inca, from Classical Quechua inka (emperor).

Pronunciation

Noun

Inca (plural Incas or Inca)

  1. A member of the group of Quechuan peoples of highland Peru who established an empire from northern Ecuador to central Chile before the Spanish conquest.
    • 2007 June 24, Arthur Lubow, “The Possessed”, in The New York Times:
      To honor the spirits that take form as mountains, the Inca stoneworkers carved rock outcrops to replicate their shapes.
    • 2010 August 16, Simon Romero, “High in the Andes, Keeping an Incan Mystery Alive”, in The New York Times:
      Archaeologists say the Incas, brought down by the Spanish conquest, used khipus – strands of woolen cords made from the hair of animals like llamas or alpacas – as an alternative to writing.

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Catalan

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Inca ?

  1. a city on the Mallorca island, Balearic Islands, Spain
  • inquer

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish inca, from Quechua Inka.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɪŋ.kaː/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: In‧ca

Noun

Inca m or f (plural Inca's, no diminutive)

  1. Inca (member of a Quechuan people)

Derived terms

  • incalelie
  • Incarijk
  • Incastad
  • Incatempel
  • Incavolk

Latin

Noun

Inca m (genitive Incae); first declension

  1. (New Latin) an Inca
    • (Can we date this quote?), In Archivos/Arquivos do Instituto de Pesquisas Agronomicas (GBS):
      Ex genere forsan Incarum et Aztecarum, qui etiam a pristina prolapsi erant humanitate, cum eis obviam ierunt Hispanici Domitores.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 1815, Joannis Severinus Vaterus (Johann Severin Vater), Linguarum totius orbis Index alphabeticus, quarum Grammaticae, Lexica, collectiones vocabulorum recensentur, patria significatur, historia adumbratur (Litteratur der Grammatiken, Lexica und Wörtersammlungen aller Sprachen der Erde nach alphabetischer Ordnung der Sprachen, mit einer gedrängten Uebersicht des Vaterlandes, der Schicksale und Verwandtschaft derselben), Berlin, p. 196:
      Lingua Peruviae propriae ab Incis per totum eorum imperium propagata, cuius cum aliis linguis nexum aliquem habuit, cum Aimara cognationem.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

First-declension noun.

More information singular, plural ...
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Quechua

Noun

Inca

  1. alternative form of Inka

Declension

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More information ñuqap (my), singular ...
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