incenso

Common Romance, ultimately from Latin incensum.

• IPA^(key): /inˈt͡senso/
• Rhymes: -enso
• Hyphenation: in‧cen‧so

incenso (uncountable, accusative incenson)

1. incense

From older jnçenso, ençenço, from Old Galician-Portuguese encensso (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), a semi-learned borrowing from Late Latin incensum, from Latin incensus.

• inxenzo

• IPA^(key): /inˈθenso̝/, /inˈθɛnso̝/
• Hyphenation: in‧cen‧so

incenso m (plural incensos)

1. incense
   • 1350, K. M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 150:

     Sabede que ẽno mũdo nõ ha jnçenso nẽ frol nẽ balsamo nẽ outra cousa que tã bõo olor aja cõmo esta pẽna.

     You must know that there is not in the world an incense, flower, balsam, or any other thing, that has such a good smell as this pelt

   • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Rufus, Jordanus: Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 125:

     filla o pez grego et a rrjzjna et o ençenço branco que chaman macho et almeçega et ia quanto sange de dragon

     take the Greek tar and the ricin and the white incense, that they call male, and musk and then also dragon's blood

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “encensso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “nçenç”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “nçens”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “incenso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “incenso”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “incenso”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

incenso

1. first-person singular present indicative of incensar

From Esperanto incenso.

incenso (uncountable)

1. incense

• incensagar (“to cense”)

• IPA^(key): /inˈt͡ʃɛn.so/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnso
• Hyphenation: in‧cèn‧so

Borrowed from Late Latin incēnsum, from Latin incēnsus.

incenso m (plural incensi)

1. incense

• incensiere

incenso

1. first-person singular present indicative of incensare

• incenso in Collins Italian-English Dictionary

• innesco, innescò, insceno, inscenò

incēnsō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of incēnsus

incēnsō

1. (Old Latin) first-person singular sigmatic future active indicative of incendō

See explanation at incendō.

Modified, based on the Latin etymology, from Old Galician-Portuguese encensso, a semi-learned borrowing from Late Latin incēnsum, from Latin incēnsus.

• Hyphenation: in‧cen‧so

incenso m (plural incensos)

1. incense

incenso

1. first-person singular present indicative of incensar