incilis

De Vaan suggests a derivation from Proto-Italic *enkaidslis, itself from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd-. Related to Latin caedō, incīdō (“to cut, hew”).

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

incīlis (neuter incīle); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. (rare) cut in
   • Cato, De Agri Cultura 155.1:

     in monte fossas inciles puras habere oportet

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

This adjective is rare; the substantivised neuter noun incīle (“ditch, trench”) is more frequent. Used to translate Ancient Greek διωρῠχή (diōrŭkhḗ).

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

• incīle

• “incilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• incile in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “incile”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN