inscription

English

Etymology

From Latin īnscrīptiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈskɹɪpʃən/
• Rhymes: -ɪpʃən

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: in‧scrip‧tion

Noun

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inscription

Wikipedia

inscription (countable and uncountable, plural inscriptions)

1. The act of inscribing.
   • 2008 June 18, Joint Communiqué, Council of Ministers of Cambodia, page 3:

     The inscription of the Temple of Preah Vihear on the World Heritage list shall be without prejudice to the rights of the Kingdom of Cambodia and the Kingdom of Thailand on the demarcation works of the Joint Commission for Land Boundary (JBC) of the two countries;

2. Text carved on a wall or plaque, such as a memorial or gravestone, or on some other item.
   • 1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days:

     He had battled like a man, and gotten a man's reward — no silver tea-pots or salvers, with flowery inscriptions setting forth his virtues and the appreciation of a genteel parish; […]

3. The text on a coin.

   Synonym: legend

   The coin bears an inscription in Latin.

4. Words written in the front of a book as a dedication.

Synonyms

• epigraphy

Derived terms

• inscriptional
• inscriptioned
• inscriptionist
• inscriptionless
• reinscription

Translations

carved text

Albanian: mbishkrim (sq) m, epigraf (sq) m Arabic: نَقْش (ar) (naqš) Armenian: մակագրություն (hy) (makagrutʻyun), արձանագրություն (hy) (arjanagrutʻyun) Azerbaijani: kitabə Bulgarian: на́дпис (bg) m (nádpis) Burmese: please add this translation if you can Catalan: inscripció (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 題字 / 题字 (zh) (tízì), 碑文 (zh) (bēiwén), 題詞 / 题词 (zh) (tící) Czech: nápis (cs) m Dutch: inscriptie (nl) f Esperanto: surskribo Finnish: kaiverrus (fi) French: inscription (fr) f Galician: inscrición (gl) f Georgian: წარწერა (c̣arc̣era) German: Inschrift (de) f Greek: επιγραφή (el) f (epigrafí), χάραξη (el) f (cháraxi) Ancient: ἐπιγραφή f (epigraphḗ) Hebrew: כְּתֹבֶת (he) f (któvet) Hindi: शिलालेख (hi) (śilālekh), अभिलेख (hi) (abhilekh), उत्कीर्णन (utkīrṇan) Hungarian: felirat (hu) Italian: inscrizione f, motto (it) m Japanese: 碑文 (ja) (ひぶん, hibun) Khmer: ចារឹក (km) (caarɨk), អក្សរ​ចារឹក (ʼaksɑɑ-caarɨk) Korean: please add this translation if you can Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Mongolian: ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠭᠡᠰᠦ (bičigesü) Cyrillic: бичээс (mn) (bičees) Norwegian: inskripsjon m Old English: inwrītting f Old Turkic: 𐰋𐰃𐱅𐰏 (bitig) Persian: کتیبه (fa) (katibe) Phoenician: 𐤐𐤎 m (ps) Polish: inskrypcja (pl) f Portuguese: inscrição (pt) f Romanian: inscripție (ro) f Russian: на́дпись (ru) f (nádpisʹ) Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: napis m Spanish: inscripción (es) f Swedish: inskrift (sv) c, inskription (sv) c Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: kitâbe, yazıt (tr) Vietnamese: chữ khắc

text on a coin

Arabic: نَقْش (ar) m (naqš) Dutch: inscriptie (nl) f Finnish: teksti (fi), kirjoitus (fi) French: légende (fr) f German: Aufschrift (de) f, Münzaufschrift f Greek: επιγραφή (el) f (epigrafí) Norwegian: inskripsjon m Plautdietsch: Enschreft f Polish: napis (pl) m Portuguese: legenda (pt) f Russian: на́дпись (ru) f (nádpisʹ) Turkish: yazı (tr)

dedication in a book

Bulgarian: посвещение n (posveštenie) Chinese: Mandarin: 題詞 / 题词 (zh) (tící) Czech: věnování n Dutch: ex libris (nl) n Finnish: omistuskirjoitus (fi) French: dédicace (fr) f German: Widmung (de) f Greek: αφιέρωση (el) f (afiérosi) Italian: dedica (it) f Norwegian: dedikasjon m Polish: dedykacja (pl) f Portuguese: dedicatória f Russian: на́дпись (ru) f (nádpisʹ), посвяще́ние (ru) n (posvjaščénije) Spanish: dedicatoria f Turkish: ithaf (tr)

See also

• epigraph

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnscrīptiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃s.kʁip.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

Noun

inscription f (plural inscriptions)

1. registration, enrolment
2. inscription

Derived terms

• frais d'inscription

Related terms

• inscrire

Further reading

• “inscription”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.