encens

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ənˈsɛns]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ənˈsəns]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [enˈsens]

encens m (plural encensos)

1. incense

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ənˈsens]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [enˈsens]

encens

1. second-person singular present indicative of encendre

• “encens”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Inherited from Old French encens, borrowed from Late Latin incēnsum, from Latin incendō.

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.sɑ̃/

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encens m (plural encens)

1. incense (a perfume often used in the rites of various religions)

• “encens”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• ancens, encense, encence, incens, incense

From Old French encens, from Late Latin incēnsum.

• IPA^(key): /ɛnˈsɛns/

encens (plural encenss)

1. incense
2. smoke (especially from incense)

• encensen

• English: incense

• “encens, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 3 April 2018.

Borrowed from Late Latin incēnsum, from Latin incendō.

encens oblique singular, m (oblique plural encens, nominative singular encens, nominative plural encens)

1. incense (a perfume often used in the rites of various religions)
   • 1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine), page page of this essay:

     on doit suffumiguer le chief de encens avec ung petit de roses

     [the physician] has to infuse the patient's head from below with incense with a few rose petals

• English: incense
• French: encens
• Norman: enchens