different between replica vs incarnation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian replica, derived from Latin replicare (“to copy”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???pl?k?/

Noun

replica (plural replicas)

1. An exact copy.

   The statue on the museum floor is an authentic replica.

2. A copy made at a smaller scale than the original.

   He collected replicas of old cars.

Related terms

• replicant
• replicate
• replication
• reply

Translations

Anagrams

• caliper, earclip

Catalan

Verb

replica

1. third-person singular present indicative form of replicar
2. second-person singular imperative form of replicar

Italian

Verb

replica

1. third-person singular present of replicare
2. second-person singular imperative of replicare

Noun

replica f (plural repliche)

1. reply, answer
2. objection
3. repetition
4. replica, copy

Anagrams

• capirle

Latin

Verb

replic?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of replic?

References

• replica in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?e.?pli.k?/

Verb

replica

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of replicar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of replicar

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French répliquer, Latin replico, replicare.

Verb

a replica (third-person singular present replic?, past participle replicat) 1st conj.

1. to replicate

Conjugation

Derived terms

• replicare

Related terms

• replic?
• replica?ie

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re?plika/, [re?pli.ka]

Verb

replica

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of replicar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of replicar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of replicar.

English

Etymology

From Middle English incarnacion, borrowed from Old French incarnacion, from Medieval Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin incarnatio, from Late Latin incarnari (“to be made flesh”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???k??(?)?ne???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

incarnation (countable and uncountable, plural incarnations)

1. An incarnate being or form.
   • 1815, Francis Jeffrey, Wordsworth's White Doe (review)

     She is a new incarnation of some of the illustrious dead.

   • 1922, Baroness Orczy, The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel

     Robespierre, the very incarnation of lustful and deadly Vengeance, stands silently by..
2. A living being embodying a deity or spirit.
3. An assumption of human form or nature.
4. A person or thing regarded as embodying or exhibiting some quality, idea, or the like.

5. The act of incarnating.
6. The state of being incarnated.
7. (obsolete) A rosy or red colour; flesh colour; carnation.
8. (medicine, obsolete) The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation.

Related terms

• carnal
• incarnate
• reincarnate
• reincarnation

Translations

Further reading

• incarnation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• incarnation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

From Middle French incarnation, from Old French incarnacion, borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin incarn?ti?, incarn?ti?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.ka?.na.sj??/

Noun

incarnation f (plural incarnations)

1. embodiment (entity typifying an abstraction)

Related terms

• incarner

Further reading

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

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French incarnacion, borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin incarn?ti?, incarn?ti?nem.

Noun

incarnation f (plural incarnations)

1. (Christianity) Incarnation. Specifically, the incarnation of God in the form of Jesus Christ.

Descendants

• French: incarnation

References

• incarnation on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)