Inca

Examples

• All

• And all that Inca gold that Pizarro took out of Peru.

  The Deep (1977)

• Machu Picchu was built by the Incas in the 1450s.

  Moon Rock for Monday (2021)

• The Spanish built it on top of an old Inca temple.

  Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023)

• The gold which the Incas valued more than anything else.

  Paddington in Peru (2024)

• "Tomorrow let's go on bikes to the Inca ruins," she said.

  Fiction book (2000)

• I read that it came from the ancient Incas.

  Paterson (2016)

• At the time of the Spanish arrival, the Incas were still in the process of imperial expansion.

  Academic text (1999)

• Among the rulers and nobility of the Inca Empire, polygamy was the typical form of marriage.

  Academic text (1999)

• The semi-arid highlands were the center of the far-flung Inca empire, Tahuantinsuyu, that extended from today's Chile to Colombia.

  Academic text (2002)

• In the 15th century, the Inca Empire expanded across much of South America.

Synonyms

I

Incan

vsInca

1 7.9

A person from the Inca people who lived near Cuzco in Peru

is the standard English noun for that same historic ruling group

I

Inka

vsInca

1 8.6

A person from the Quechua people near Cuzco who built a large empire in the Andes before the Spanish conquest

is the common English spelling for the same historic rulers

Q

Quechua

vsInca

9.6

A person from the native people of the Andes who once ruled in the Inca Empire

focuses on the specific founders of the empire rather than the whole people

K

Kechua

vsInca

9.9

A person from a native people in Peru who was once part of the Inca ruling class

emphasizes the empire founders rather than the broader population

Surface Forms

Etymology