different between cicatrice vs cicatrize

English

Etymology

From Latin cicatrix

Noun

cicatrice (plural cicatrices)

1. (medicine) a scar
   • 1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House Is Built, Chapter VII, Section viii

     Fanny's scissors moved steadily round the armhole and slit down the sleeve, revealing a surprisingly soft white arm and shoulder. Across the shoulder was an ancient cicatrice.

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cic?tr?x.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.ka.t?is/

Noun

cicatrice f (plural cicatrices)

1. scar

Further reading

• “cicatrice” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

From Latin cicatrix, cicatricem.

Noun

cicatrice f (plural cicatrici)

1. scar

Derived terms

• cicatrizzare

Anagrams

• eccitarci

Latin

Noun

cic?tr?ce

1. ablative singular of cic?tr?x

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin cic?tr?x, cicatricem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t??ika?trit??e]

Noun

cicatrice f (plural cicatrice or cicatrici)

1. scar

Declension

Spanish

Verb

cicatrice

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of cicatrizar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of cicatrizar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of cicatrizar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of cicatrizar.

English

Alternative forms

• cicatrise (British)

Etymology

From cicatrix +? -ize.

Verb

cicatrize (third-person singular simple present cicatrizes, present participle cicatrizing, simple past and past participle cicatrized)

1. (intransitive) to form a scar
   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula (Chapter XIV)

     As for myself, I was settling down to my work with the enthusiasm which I used to have for it, so that I might fairly have said that the wound which poor Lucy left on me was becoming cicatrized.

2. (transitive) to treat or heal a wound by causing a scar or cicatrix to form
   • The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night

     The stump was dipped in boiling oil to cicatrize the wound.

Translations

Anagrams

• arcticize

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?si.ka.?t?i.zi/

Verb

cicatrize

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of cicatrizar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of cicatrizar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of cicatrizar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of cicatrizar