encré

The origin of these words is the Latin encaustum; in Greek, the term is translated as red ink with which the Greek emperors signed (this term comes from two words, one of which means burned, see encaustic). The Latin and Greek words were accentuated differently; Latin had the accent on the cau syllable, and, as in all words derived from Greek where the national accentuation was in conflict with the foreign accentuation, the pronunciation of encaustum was sometimes Latin (encáustum), sometimes Greek (éncaustum); at least this is what the Romance languages show, reproducing some éncaustum (French, its dialects and Sicilian), others encáustum (Occitan, Spanish and Italian).