cranium

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Medieval Latin crānium (“skull”), from Ancient Greek κρανίον (kranion, “skull”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪniəm

Noun

cranium (plural craniums or crania)

1. The skull of a vertebrate.
2. That part of the skull enclosing the brain, the braincase.

Derived terms

• cranial
• cranially
• hemicrania
• hemicraniectomy
• hemicraniotomy

Translations

skull

• Arabic: جمجمة (ar) (jumjúma) f

  Egyptian Arabic: جمجمة (gumguma) f

• Armenian: գանգ (hy) (gang)
• Bulgarian: череп (bg) (čerep) m
• Catalan: crani (ca) m
• Czech: lebka (cs) f
• Dutch: schedel (nl)
• Esperanto: kranio (eo)
• Finnish: kallo (fi), pääkoppa (fi)

• German: Schädel (de) m, Kranium (de) n
• Irish: blaosc an chinn (ga) f, blaosc an chloiginn (ga) f
• Italian: cranio (it) m
• Latin: cranium (la) n
• Malay: tengkorak (ms), kranium (ms)
• Romanian: craniu (ro) n
• Scottish Gaelic: claigeann (gd) m
• Swedish: skalle (sv) c, kranium (sv) n
• Volapük: kran (vo)

braincase

• Bulgarian: черепна кутия (bg) (čerepna kutija)
• Czech: mozkovna (cs) f
• Dutch: hersenpan (nl)
• Finnish: aivokoppa (fi), pääkoppa (fi)

• German: Hirnschädel (de) m, Hirnschale (de) f
• Italian: cranio (it) m
• Scottish Gaelic: claigeann (gd) m

Anagrams

• Murcian

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Latin

Etymology

Renaissance Latin, from Ancient Greek κρανίον (kranion, “skull”).

Noun

crānium (genitive crāniī); n, second declension

1. skull

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	crānium	crānia
genitive	crāniī	crāniōrum
dative	crāniō	crāniīs
accusative	crānium	crānia
ablative	crāniō	crāniīs
vocative	crānium	crānia

Descendants

English: cranium French: crâne Italian: cranio

Portuguese: crânio Romanian: craniu Spanish: cráneo