incisor

English

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incisor

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Etymology

Borrowing from New Latin incīsor, from incīdō (“to cut into, cut through”) +‎ -tor (“-er, -or”, agent noun suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈsaɪ.zə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -aɪzə(ɹ)

Noun

incisor (plural incisors)

1. (anatomy, zootomy) A narrow-edged tooth at the front of the mouth of mammals, between the canines and adapted for cutting; in humans there are four in each jaw.

Derived terms

• nasoincisor

Related terms

• incise
• incision

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kh₂eyd- (0 c, 32 e)

Translations

narrow-edged tooth

Arabic: قَاطِعَة f (qāṭiʕa) Armenian: կտրիչ ատամ (ktričʻ atam) Bulgarian: резец (bg) m (rezec) Catalan: incisiva f, dent incisiva f Chinese: Mandarin: 門牙 / 门牙 (zh) (ményá), 門齒 / 门齿 (zh) (ménchǐ) Czech: řezák (cs) m Danish: fortand (da) c Dutch: snijtand (nl) m Esperanto: incizivo, tranĉodento Finnish: etuhammas (fi) French: incisive (fr) f Galician: incisivo (gl) m, pa (gl) Georgian: საჭრელი კბილი (sač̣reli ḳbili) German: Schneidezahn (de) m Greek: κοπτήρας (el) m (koptíras), τομεύς (el) m (toméfs), τομέας (el) m (toméas) Hebrew: חוֹתֶכֶת f (ḥotechét) Hungarian: metszőfog (hu) Icelandic: framtönn (is) f Ido: incizivo (io) Inuktitut: ᓯᕗᐊᑦ (sifoat) Italian: incisivo (it) m Japanese: 門歯 (ja) (もんし, monshi) Korean: 앞니 (ko) (amni), 문치 (munchi) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: diranê pêşî m Macedonian: секач m (sekač) Malay: gigi kacip Maori: niho tapahi, pākirikiri (on the lower jaw only) Norwegian: Bokmål: fortann (no) m or f Nynorsk: framtann f Persian: دندان پیش (dandân-e piš) Polish: siekacz (pl) m Portuguese: incisivo m Romanian: incisiv (ro) m Russian: резе́ц (ru) m (rezéc) Scottish Gaelic: clàr-fhiacaill f Slovak: rezák Slovene: sekalec (sl) m Spanish: diente incisivo m, incisivo (es) m, cortador (es) m, incisor m Swedish: framtand (sv) c, incisiv (sv) c Tagalog: ngiping harap Thai: ฟันตัด (fan-dtàt) Turkish: kesici diş Vietnamese: răng cửa (vi) Volapük: kötatut, beitatut (vo) Welsh: dant blaen m West Coast Bajau: impon kapak

References

• “incisor”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “incisor”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

• Cirinos, Corsini

Latin

Etymology

From incīdō (“to cut into, cut through”) +‎ -tor (“-er, -or”, agent noun suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪŋˈkiː.sɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [in̠ʲˈt͡ʃiː.s̬or]

Noun

incīsor m (genitive incīsōris); third declension (New Latin)

1. (anatomy, zootomy) incisor

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Inflection

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	incīsor	incīsōrēs
genitive	incīsōris	incīsōrum
dative	incīsōrī	incīsōribus
accusative	incīsōrem	incīsōrēs
ablative	incīsōre	incīsōribus
vocative	incīsor	incīsōrēs

Descendants

• → English: incisor