different between cicatrix vs inseam

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

Etymology

in- +? seam

Pronunciation

• (noun) IPA^(key): /??nsi?m/
• (verb) IPA^(key): /?n?si?m/

Noun

inseam (plural inseams)

1. The seam of a trouser up the inside of the leg.

Translations

Verb

inseam (third-person singular simple present inseams, present participle inseaming, simple past and past participle inseamed)

1. (transitive) To impress or mark with a seam or cicatrix.

See also

• ankle
• calf
• thigh

Further reading

Anagrams

• Amiens, Eisman, Emsian, Iseman, Sinema, amines, animes, animés, manies, mesian