incise
verb
[ ɪnˈsʌɪz ]
• mark or decorate (an object or surface) with a cut or cuts.
• "a button incised with a skull"
Origin:
mid 16th century: from French inciser, from Latin incis- ‘cut into, engraved’, from the verb incidere, from in- ‘into’ + caedere ‘to cut’.
