# incus
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin incūs (“anvil”).

### Pronunciation

* (UK, US) IPA: /ˈɪŋ.kəs/
* Rhymes: -ɪŋkəs

### Noun

incus (plural incudes)
* (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").
* (meteorology) an accessory cloud, in the shape of an anvil which forms by spreading at the top of a cumulonimbus.

#### Synonyms

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

#### Related terms

* incudal

#### Translations
### Anagrams

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

## Afrikaans
### Alternative forms

* inkus

### Etymology

From Latin incūs (“anvil”).

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: in‧cus

### Noun

incus (plural incudes)
* (anatomy) incus
    Synonym: aambeeld

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɛ̃.kys/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

incus m (plural incus)
* (anatomy) incus
    Synonym: enclume

## Latin
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

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

#### Noun

incūs f (genitive incūdis); third declension
* anvil

##### Declension

Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
| Nominative | incūs | incūdēs |
| Genitive | incūdis | incūdum |
| Dative | incūdī | incūdibus |
| Accusative | incūdem | incūdēs |
| Ablative | incūde | incūdibus |
| Vocative | incūs | incūdēs |

##### Descendants

* Afrikaans: incus, inkus
* Asturian: xunque
* Basque: ingude
* Catalan: enclusa
* Dalmatian: ancusene
* English: incus
* French: enclume
* Friulian: incuin
* Galician: engra
* Italian: incudine
* Maltese: inkwina
* Ladin: ancúgn
* Occitan: enclutge
* Portuguese: incude
* Romansch: inchüna, anchüna
* Sardinian: incódina, incódine, incúdina, alcútina
* Sicilian: ncùnija
* Old Spanish: yunque, incue, inque
** Spanish: yunque, ayunque
* Venetian: ancùxene
* Walloon: eglome

### Etymology 2

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

#### Adjective

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

##### Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

##### Related terms

* Inca

### References

* “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