incarner

Meaning

  1. to incarnate
  2. to embody, to personify
  3. to play (act as a certain character)
  4. (reflexive) to ingrow (become ingrown) (of a toenail or fingernail)

Frequency

30k
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɛ̃.kaʁ.ne/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Middle French incarner, borrowed (1372) from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin incarnāre, from Latin carō. Cf. also the Old French form encharner.

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