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

• IPA(key): /ˈɪndɪs/

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

• “indice”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• Cindie, ceinid, dienic, incide

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

• IPA(key): /ɛ̃.dis/

indice m (plural indices)

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

• indice de masse corporelle

indice

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

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

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

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

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

• (finger): dito indice
• (in economics, mathematics): tasso
• (indication): indizio
• (indicator, pointer): lancetta
• indicare
• indice analitico
• indice dei prezzi
• indice dei prezzi al consumo
• indicativo
• dito
• cinedi, cnidie, endici, incedi, incide

Form of the noun index.

indice

1. ablative singular of index

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

indīce

1. second-person singular present active imperative of indīcō

Borrowed from Italian indice or French indice or Latin index. Doublet of index and indiciu.

indice m (plural indici)

1. index

indice

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