incline
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incline
- /ɪnˈklaɪn/
- /ˈɪn.klaɪn/
Rhymes with -aɪn, -ɪnklaɪn
Where it comes from
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Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Latin in-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱel-
Proto-Indo-European *-éyti
Proto-Indo-European *ḱley-
Proto-Indo-European *-né-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱl̥néyti ~ *ḱl̥nyénti
Proto-Italic *kl(e)inō
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
Proto-Italic *-ājō
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
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Proto-Italic *klei- ~ *kli-influ.
Latin clīnō
Latin inclīnāre
Old French enclinerbor.
Middle English enclinen
English incline
From Middle English enclinen, from Old French encliner (modern incliner), from Latin inclīnō (“incline, tilt”), from in- + clīnō (compare -cline), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (English lean).
verb inclines · inclining · inclined · encline
- To bend or move (something) out of a given plane or direction, often the horizontal or vertical. He had to incline his body against the gusts to avoid being blown down in the storm.
- To slope. Over the centuries the wind made the walls of the farmhouse incline.
- To tend to do or believe something, or move or be moved in a certain direction, away from a point of view, attitude, etc. He inclines to believe anything he reads in the newspapers.
noun inclines · encline
- A slope. To reach the building, we had to climb a steep incline.
- A portal of a subway tunnel. the Pleasant Street Incline
