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Inca
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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
- A taxonomic genus within the family Scarabaeidae – certain New World scarabs.
Derived terms
See also
Inca (beetle) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Inca on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Category:Inca (Scarabaeidae) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish inca, from Classical Quechua inka (“emperor”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɪŋkə/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Homophone: inker (non-rhotic)
- Rhymes: -ɪŋkə
Noun
- 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.
Derived terms
Translations
member of the group of Quechuan peoples
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Catalan
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Inca ?
- a city on the Mallorca island, Balearic Islands, Spain
Related terms
- inquer
Dutch
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
Inca m or f (plural Inca's, no diminutive)
- Inca (member of a Quechuan people)
Derived terms
- incalelie
- Incarijk
- Incastad
- Incatempel
- Incavolk
Latin
Noun
Inca m (genitive Incae); first declension
- (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)
- (Can we date this quote?), In Archivos/Arquivos do Instituto de Pesquisas Agronomicas (GBS):
Declension
First-declension noun.
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Quechua
Noun
Inca
- alternative form of Inka
Declension
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