incarnate

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• General-American: /ɪnˈkɑːɹ.nɪt/
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• General-American: /ɪnˈkɑːɹ.neɪt/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɪnˈkɑːneɪt/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɪnˈkɑːnət/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɪnkɑːneɪt/
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• CMU ARPABET: IH2 N K AA1 R N AH0 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: IH2 N K AA1 R N EY2 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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First attested in 1395, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English incarnat(e) (“(of God or Christ) embodied in human form or flesh, incarnate; provided with new tissues, healed; (with devel, in curses) bloody”), borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin incarnātus, perfect passive participle of incarnor (“to be made flesh, become incarnate”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from in- + Latin carō (“flesh”, carn- in its oblique stem) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, in- + Latin carn- + -ate.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English carnate English incarnate From in- + carnate.

First attested in 1533; borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin incarnātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.

43 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: въплътен (vǎplǎten) — given a bodily form
• Bulgarian: олицетворен (olicetvoren) — given a bodily form
• Finnish: ruumiillistunut — given a bodily form
• Finnish: lihallistunut — given a bodily form
• Finnish: lihaksi tullut — given a bodily form
• French: incarné — given a bodily form
• German: fleischgeworden — given a bodily form
• German: inkarnat — given a bodily form
• Greek: ενσαρκωμένος (ensarkoménos) — given a bodily form
• Greek: ενσώματος (ensómatos) — given a bodily form
• Russian: во плоти́ (vo plotí) — given a bodily form
• Russian: воплощённый (voploščónnyj) — given a bodily form
• Spanish: encarnado — given a bodily form
• Swedish: människobliven — given a bodily form
• Welsh: ymgnawdoledig — given a bodily form
• Arabic: جَسَّدَ (jassada) — to make carnal
• Bulgarian: въплъщавам (vǎplǎštavam) — to make carnal
• Finnish: maallistaa — to make carnal
• Greek: ενσαρκώνω (ensarkóno) — to make carnal
• Welsh: cnawdoli — to make carnal
• Bulgarian: въплъщавам (vǎplǎštavam) — to embody in flesh
• Catalan: encarnar — to embody in flesh
• Esperanto: enkarniĝi — to embody in flesh
• Finnish: ruumiillistaa — to embody in flesh
• Greek: ενσαρκώνω (ensarkóno) — to embody in flesh
• Portuguese: encarnar — to embody in flesh
• Russian: воплоща́ть (voploščátʹ) — to embody in flesh
• Russian: воплоти́ть (voplotítʹ) — to embody in flesh
• Russian: олицетворя́ть (olicetvorjátʹ) — to embody in flesh
• Russian: олицетвори́ть (olicetvorítʹ) — to embody in flesh
• Spanish: encarnar — to embody in flesh
• Welsh: ymgnawdoli — to embody in flesh
• Bulgarian: олицетворявам (olicetvorjavam) — to represent in a concrete form
• Finnish: havainnollistaa — to represent in a concrete form
• Greek: προσωποποιώ (prosopopoió) — to represent in a concrete form
• Italian: concretizzare — to represent in a concrete form
• Italian: materializzare — to represent in a concrete form
• Portuguese: encarnar — to represent in a concrete form
• Russian: осуществля́ть (osuščestvljátʹ) — to represent in a concrete form
• Russian: осуществи́ть (osuščestvítʹ) — to represent in a concrete form
• Spanish: encarnar — to represent in a concrete form
• Welsh: ymgnawdoli — to represent in a concrete form
• Welsh: ymgorffori — to represent in a concrete form