different between cicatrix vs cicatrise

English

Etymology

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?s?.k??t??ks/, /s??ke?.t??ks/
• Hyphenation: cic?a?trix

Noun

cicatrix (plural cicatrixes or cicatrices)

1. A scar that remains after the development of new tissue over a recovering wound or sore (also used figuratively).
   • 1938, Herbert Xavier, Capricornia, Chapter II, p. 21,

     He stopped to stare at two old men who sat beside the fire, naked and daubed with red and white ochre and adorned about arms and legs and breasts with elaborate systems of cicatrix.

Translations

Latin

Etymology

Unknown etymology, possibly from a substrate.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ki?ka?.tri?ks/, [k??kä?t??i?ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t??i?ka.triks/, [t??i?k??t??iks]

Noun

cic?tr?x f (genitive cic?tr?cis); third declension

1. scar, bruise, incision

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• cic?tr?cula
• cic?tr?cor
• cic?tr?c?sus

Descendants

References

• cicatrix in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cicatrix in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cicatrix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

English

Alternative forms

• cicatrize (US)

Etymology

From Old French cicatriser (French cicatriser), from Latin cic?tr?x (“scar”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?s?k.?.t?a?z/

Verb

cicatrise (third-person singular simple present cicatrises, present participle cicatrising, simple past and past participle cicatrised)

1. (transitive) To heal a wound through scarring (by causing a scar or cicatrix to form).
   • 1923, The Thousand Nights and One Night, translated by Powys Mathers

     But hardly had I accused myself of the theft, when my arm was seized and my right hand cut off. When the stump was dipped in boiling oil to cicatrise the wound, I fell down in a faint.

2. (intransitive) To form a scar.

Related terms

• cauterise
• cicatrix

Translations

French

Verb

cicatrise

1. first-person singular present indicative of cicatriser
2. third-person singular present indicative of cicatriser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of cicatriser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of cicatriser
5. second-person singular imperative of cicatriser