coccyx
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Latin coccyx, from Ancient Greek κόκκυξ (kókkux, “cuckoo”), referring to the curved shape of a cuckoo's beak when viewed from the side.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɑksɪks/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɒksɪks/
Noun[edit]
coccyx (plural coccyges)
Synonyms[edit]
- tailbone (informal)
Hypernyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
(anatomy) final fused vertebrae
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Further reading[edit]
coccyx on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
coccyx on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Ancient Greek κόκκυξ (kókkux).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
coccyx m (plural coccyx)
Further reading[edit]
- “coccyx” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Ancient Greek κόκκῡξ (kókkūx).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkok.kyːks/, [ˈkɔkkyːks̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkot.t͡ʃiks/, [ˈkɔtt͡ʃiks]
Noun[edit]
coccȳx m (genitive coccȳgis); third declension
Declension[edit]
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | coccȳx | coccȳgēs |
Genitive | coccȳgis | coccȳgum |
Dative | coccȳgī | coccȳgibus |
Accusative | coccȳgem | coccȳgēs |
Ablative | coccȳge | coccȳgibus |
Vocative | coccȳx | coccȳgēs |
References[edit]
- coccyx in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- coccyx in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Portuguese[edit]
Noun[edit]
coccyx m (plural coccyx)
- Obsolete spelling of cóccix (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).
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