cerebrum

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cerebrum (“brain, skull”); see there for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.ɹɪ.bɹəm/, /sɪˈɹiː.bɹəm/

Noun

cerebrum (plural cerebra or cerebrums)

1. (neuroanatomy) The upper part of the brain, which is divided into the two cerebral hemispheres. In humans it is the largest part of the brain and is the seat of motor and sensory functions, and the higher mental functions such as consciousness, thought, reason, emotion, and memory.

Synonyms

• telencephalon

Meronyms

• cerebral hemisphere
• cerebral cortex

Holonyms

• forebrain

Derived terms

Derived terms

• cerebral
• cerebral cortex
• deutocerebrum

• protocerebrum
• tritocerebrum

Related terms

• cerebellum

Translations

upper part of the brain

• Armenian: գլխուղեղ (hy) (glxuġeġ)
• Bulgarian: главен мозък (glaven mozǎk)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大腦／大脑 (zh) (dànǎo), 大脑 (zh) (dànǎo)

• Czech: koncový mozek m
• Danish: storhjerne (da)
• Dutch: telencephalon
• Finnish: isot aivot pl, isotaivot
• French: telencéphale m
• Greek: εγκέφαλος (el) m (egkéfalos)
• Hungarian: nagyagy (hu)
• Irish: ceirbream m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 大脳 (だいのう, dainō)
• Kalmyk: тарг (targ)
• Malay: sereberum
• Maori: roronui, roro hiringa
• Mongolian: их тархи (ix tarxi)
• Portuguese: telencéfalo m
• Russian: головно́й мозг (ru) m (golovnój mozg)
• Spanish: telencéfalo m
• Swedish: storhjärna (sv) c
• Tagalog: malaking-utak, utak-pang-isip
• Telugu: పెద్దమెదడు (peddamedaḍu), బృహన్మస్తిష్కము (te) (br̥hanmastiṣkamu)
• Vietnamese: đại não

Anagrams

• cumberer

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Latin

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

From Proto-Italic *kerazrom, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈke.re.brum/, [ˈkɛrɛbrʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.re.brum/, [ˈt͡ʃɛːrebrum]

Noun

cerebrum n (genitive cerebrī); second declension

1. brain
2. skull

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cerebrum	cerebra
Genitive	cerebrī	cerebrōrum
Dative	cerebrō	cerebrīs
Accusative	cerebrum	cerebra
Ablative	cerebrō	cerebrīs
Vocative	cerebrum	cerebra

Derived terms

• cerebellum
• cerebralis
• cerebrōsus

 

Descendants

• Aromanian: crier
• Asturian: cerebru
• English: cerebrum
• Esperanto: cerbo
• Galician: cerebro
• Ido: cerebro
• Interlingua: cerebro
• Italian: cerebro
• Portuguese: cérebro
• Romanian: creier
• Spanish: cerebro
• Turkish: serebrum

References

• “cerebrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cerebrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cerebrum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• cerebrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “cerebrum”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.