indice

See also: Indice, índice, and indicé

English

Etymology

From Old French indice, from Latin indicium, from index.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɪndɪs/
  • Audio (UK)(file)

Noun

indice (plural indices)

  1. (obsolete) index
  2. (obsolete) indication
    • a. 1638 (date written)​, Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Under-woods. Consisting of Divers Poems. (please specify the poem)”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, →OCLC:
      You know (without my flatt'ring you) too much / For me to be your indice

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for indice in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin indicium, from indicō (“point out, indicate, show”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɛ̃.dis/
  • Audio(file)
  • Audio (CAN)(file)

Noun

indice m (plural indices)

  1. clue, hint, indication
  2. (finance) index
  3. (computing) index

Derived terms

Verb

indice

  1. inflection of indicer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin indicem (“sign, indication; index”), from indicō (“point out, indicate, show”). Doublet of endice.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈin.di.t͡ʃe/
  • Rhymes: -inditʃe
  • Hyphenation: ìn‧di‧ce

Noun

indice m (plural indici)

  1. index, index finger, forefinger
  2. (economics, mathematics) index, rate, rating
  3. (books) table of contents
  4. (books, short for indice analitico) index
  5. indication, sign
  6. indicator, pointer

Synonyms

See also

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology 1

Form of the noun index.

Noun

indice

  1. ablative singular of index

Etymology 2

Form of the verb indīcō (“[I] proclaim, announce”).

Verb

indīce

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of indīcō

Romanian

Etymology

From Italian indice or French indice or Latin index. Doublet of index and indiciu.

Noun

indice m (plural indici)

  1. index

Declension
Declension of indice
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) indice indiceul (niște) indici indicii
genitive/dative (unui) indice indiceului (unor) indici indicilor
vocative indiceule indicilor

Spanish

Verb

indice

  1. inflection of indizar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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