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prettygoodwordenceinte1 (en-SAYNT, ahn-SANT) - adj., pregnant, esp. late enough as to be visibly pregnant.
enceinte2 (en-SAYNT, ahn-SANT) - n., a boundary wall enclosing a defended area such as a fort, town, and so on; the area so enclosed.
Two entries because they're actually two different words: both arrived from French and have the same Latin root for the stem -- cincta, feminine of cinctus, past participle of cingere, to belt, gird, surround. The first, however, has the negative in- prefix, as in a pregnant woman too large to be wearing a girdle, while the second is the inclusive in- prefix, as in surrounded within. The pregnancy sense is older, attested to c.1600, while the fortification arrived about a century later.
---L.
enceinte2 (en-SAYNT, ahn-SANT) - n., a boundary wall enclosing a defended area such as a fort, town, and so on; the area so enclosed.
Two entries because they're actually two different words: both arrived from French and have the same Latin root for the stem -- cincta, feminine of cinctus, past participle of cingere, to belt, gird, surround. The first, however, has the negative in- prefix, as in a pregnant woman too large to be wearing a girdle, while the second is the inclusive in- prefix, as in surrounded within. The pregnancy sense is older, attested to c.1600, while the fortification arrived about a century later.
---L.
