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单词 inca
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Incan.

Brit. /ˈɪŋkə/, U.S. /ˈɪŋkə/
Forms: Also 1500s–1700s Inga, 1600s Ingua, Ynca.
Etymology: Peruvian inca ‘lord, king, emperor’, also, more widely, ‘man of the blood royal’, the king being distinguished as Capa Inca, i.e. ‘sole lord’ (Garcilasso de Vega, Comment. reales (1609) I. xxiv). (The form inga was, according to Garcilasso (himself of the race of Incas), a Spanish corruption.)
The title of the emperor or king of Peru before its conquest by the Spanish; also, one of the royal race of Peru, descended from Manco Capac and Mama Ocollo.
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Inca1594
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > dynasty > [noun] > member of Peruvian
Inca1777
1526 Oviedo Hystoria de las Indias (1855) xlvi. xvii Solo al superior señor le llaman Inga.]
1594 T. Blundeville Exercises v. f. 268 In the Prouince Peru..yet vnder the gouernement of their naturall King, which then was called Ingas.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iv. xli. 320 The Ingua king of Peru.
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ To Rdr. sig. A3v Which made the Indian Inca think they were Spirits who in white sheets the Aer did tear.
1668 H. More Divine Dialogues (1713) iii. xvi. 210 Those of Peru frequently sacrifice their Children for the success of the affairs of their Ingua.
1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1783) III. 23 The empire of the Incas or Lords of Peru.
1840 Penny Cycl. XVIII. 10/1 In 1780 the Peruvians took up arms against the Spaniards, under Tupac Amaro, an Inca.
1847 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Peru I. iii. viii. 500 The brows of the young Inca were encircled with the imperial borla by the hands of his conqueror.

Compounds

Special combinations.
Inca Cockatoo n. an adaptation of a German name, Inka Kakadu (cf. Reichenow, Vogelbilder aus fernen Zonen 1878–83), of the Pink or Leadbetter's Cockatoo of Australia.
Inca dog n. a South American species or sub-species of dog, Canis ingæ of Tschudi.
Inca tern n. a species of tern ( Nænia inca), called also Bearded Tern.The tern was originally described in 1826 by Lesson ( Voyage de la Coquille, Zoologie 731) as ‘Sterne des Incas’ Sterna inca; placed by Boci ( Isis 1844, p. 189) in a new genus Nænia, overlooking which Jardine in 1850 proposed to name it Inca mysticalis.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > other types of tern
noddya1577
egg-bird1697
white bird1697
sheep's-head gull1808
moustache tern1837
Inca tern1887
1887 Ibis 5 204 There were numbers of..the beautiful slate-black Inca Tern (Nænia inca) with its curling white moustaches and cherry-red bill and feet.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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