coccyx

English

the coccyx

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κόκκυξ (kókkux, “cuckoo”), referring to the curved shape of a cuckoo's beak when viewed from the side.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑksɪks/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒksɪks/

Noun

coccyx (plural coccyges)

1. (medicine, formal) The final (bottommost) fused vertebrae at the base of the spine, the tailbone.

Synonyms

• tailbone (informal)

Hypernyms

• bone

Derived terms

• coccygeal
• coccygectomy

Translations

(medical) final fused vertebrae

• Arabic: عُصُص‏‎ m (ʿuṣuṣ)

  Egyptian Arabic: عصعص‏‎ m (ʿúṣʿuṣ)

• Armenian: պոչուկ (hy) (počʿuk)
• Bulgarian: опашна кост (opašna kost)
• Catalan: còccix m
• Central Melanau: tuleang kelebik, kubin
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 尾骨 (zh) (wěigǔ), 尾骶骨 (zh) (wěidǐgǔ), 尾閭骨 (zh), 尾闾骨 (zh) (wěilǘgǔ)

• Crimean Tatar: quyruq kemigi
• Czech: kostrč (cs) f
• Danish: ^{(please verify)} haleben (da) n
• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} staartbeen (nl), ^{(please verify)} stuitbeen (nl), ^{(please verify)} stuit (nl) f
• Esperanto: kokcigo
• Faroese: ^{(please verify)} halabein n
• Finnish: coccyx (fi) (professional term); häntäluu (fi) (common language term)
• French: coccyx (fr) m
• Galician: cóccix (gl) m
• German: Coccyx m (professional term); Steißbein (de) n (common language term)
• Hiligaynon: pigtot
• Hungarian: farkcsont (hu)
• Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} rófubein (is)
• Ilocano: kimmol
• Indonesian: tulang sulbi (id), tulang ekor (id), tulang tongkeng (id), koksiks

• Italian: coccige (it)
• Japanese: 尾骨 (ja) (びこつ, bikotsu), 尾骶骨 (びていこつ, biteikotsu), 尾閭骨 (びりょこつ, biryokotsu)
• Lithuanian: uodegikaulis
• Malay: tulang sulbi, tulang ekor, tulang cenonot, tulang kongkeng, tulang tongkeng, koksiks
• Maori: timu
• Navajo: atseeʼ
• Polish: kość guziczna f
• Portuguese: cóccix m
• Russian: ко́пчик (ru) m (kópčik)
• Sabah Bisaya: saligi'
• Scots: ^{(please verify)} rumple-bane
• Serbo-Croatian: trtica (sh) f, trtičnjača f
• Slovak: kostrč (sk) f
• Slovene: trtica (sl) f
• Spanish: coxis (es) m
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} korsben c
• Tagal Murut: kalut
• Tagalog: puil, tulatod
• Turkish: kuyruk sokumu (tr)
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: xương cụt
• West Coast Bajau: sengkurung

Further reading

• coccyx on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• coccyx on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κόκκυξ (kókkux).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔk.sis/

Noun

coccyx m (plural coccyx)

1. (anatomy) coccyx, tailbone

Further reading

• “coccyx” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κόκκῡξ (kókkūx).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkok.kyːks/, [ˈkɔk.kyːks]

Noun

coccȳx m (genitive coccȳgis); third declension

1. (anatomy) coccyx

Inflection

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	coccyx	coccygēs
genitive	coccygis	coccygum
dative	coccygī	coccygibus
accusative	coccygem	coccygēs
ablative	coccyge	coccygibus
vocative	coccyx	coccygēs

References

• coccyx in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “coccyx” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)

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Portuguese

Noun

coccyx m (plural coccyx)

1. Obsolete spelling of cóccix (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).