inscription

From Latin īnscrīptiō.

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈskɹɪpʃən/
• Rhymes: -ɪpʃən

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• Hyphenation: in‧scrip‧tion

inscription (countable and uncountable, plural inscriptions)

1. The act of inscribing.
   • 2008 June 18, Joint Communiqué, Council of Ministers of Cambodia, page 3:

     The inscription of the Temple of Preah Vihear on the World Heritage list shall be without prejudice to the rights of the Kingdom of Cambodia and the Kingdom of Thailand on the demarcation works of the Joint Commission for Land Boundary (JBC) of the two countries;

2. Text carved on a wall or plaque, such as a memorial or gravestone, or on some other item.
   • 1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days:

     He had battled like a man, and gotten a man's reward — no silver tea-pots or salvers, with flowery inscriptions setting forth his virtues and the appreciation of a genteel parish; […]

3. The text on a coin.

   Synonym: legend

   The coin bears an inscription in Latin.

4. Words written in the front of a book as a dedication.

• epigraph

Borrowed from Latin īnscrīptiōnem.

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃s.kʁip.sjɔ̃/

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inscription f (plural inscriptions)

1. registration, enrolment
2. inscription

• frais d'inscription

• inscrire

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