coccyx

English

the coccyx

Etymology

Latin coccyx, 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/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

coccyx (plural coccyges)

1. (medicine, formal) The final (bottom-most) fused vertebrae at the base of the spine, the tailbone.
   • 2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, Vintage (2019), page 129:

     He lands on the concrete path and bounces on his coccyx, which cracks the base of his spine.

Synonyms

• tailbone (informal)

Hypernyms

• bone

Derived terms

• coccygeal
• coccygectomy
• sacrococcyx

Translations

(anatomy) final fused vertebrae

• Arabic: عُصُص‎ m (ʿuṣuṣ), عُصْعُص‎ m (ʿuṣʿuṣ)

  Egyptian Arabic: عصعص‎ m (ʿúṣʿuṣ)

• Armenian: պոչուկ (hy) (počʿuk)
• Belarusian: хвастцо́вая косць f (xvastcóvaja koscʹ), хвасце́ц m (xvascjéc)
• Bulgarian: опашна кост (opašna kost)
• Catalan: còccix m
• Cebuano: bangkawbangkaw
• 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: haleben (da) n
• Dutch: staartbeen (nl), ^{(please verify)} stuitbeen (nl), ^{(please verify)} stuit (nl) f, stuitje (nl) n
• Esperanto: kokcigo
• Faroese: halabein n
• Finnish: häntäluu (fi)
• French: coccyx (fr) m
• Galician: cóccix (gl) m
• German: Coccyx m (professional term); Steißbein (de) n (common language term)
• Greek:

  Ancient: κόκκυξ m (kókkux)

  Modern: κόκκυξ m (kókkyx), ουρά m (ourá)

• Hiligaynon: pigtot
• Hungarian: farkcsont (hu), farokcsont (hu)
• Icelandic: 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)
• Kapampangan: kaikut, kayikut
• Kazakh: құймышақ (quymışaq)
• Korean: 꼬리뼈 (kkorippyeo)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: hestiyê qilênce

• Lithuanian: uodegikaulis
• Malay: tulang sulbi, tulang ekor, tulang cenonot, tulang kongkeng, tulang tongkeng, koksiks
• Maori: timu
• Navajo: atseeʼ
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: haleben n, halebein n

  Nynorsk: halebein n

• Persian: دنبالچه‎ (fa) (donbâlče)
• Polish: kość guziczna (pl) f, kość ogonowa f
• Portuguese: cóccix (pt) m, mucumbu m (Northeast Brazil), curanchim m (Brazil)
• Russian: ко́пчик (ru) m (kópčik)
• Sabah Bisaya: saligi'
• Scots: rumple-bane
• Serbo-Croatian: trtica (sh) f, trtičnjača f
• Slovak: kostrč (sk) f
• Slovene: trtica (sl) f
• Spanish: cóccix (es) m, coxis (es) m
• Swedish: korsben c
• Tagal Murut: kalut
• Tagalog: puil, tulatod
• Thai: ก้นกบ (th) (gôn-gòp)
• Turkish: kuyruk sokumu (tr)
• Ukrainian: ку́прик m (kúpryk)
• Vietnamese: xương cụt (𩩫𥐒)
• 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/

• Audio

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Noun

coccyx m (plural coccyx)

1. (anatomy) coccyx, tailbone

Further reading

• “coccyx”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κόκκῡξ (kókkūx).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkok.kyːks/, [ˈkɔkːyːks̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkot.t͡ʃiks/, [ˈkɔtː͡ʃiks]

Noun

coccȳx m (genitive coccȳgis); third declension

1. (anatomy) coccyx

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	coccȳx	coccȳgēs
Genitive	coccȳgis	coccȳgum
Dative	coccȳgī	coccȳgibus
Accusative	coccȳgem	coccȳgēs
Ablative	coccȳge	coccȳgibus
Vocative	coccȳx	coccȳgēs

References

• “coccyx”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• coccyx in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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Portuguese

Noun

coccyx m (plural coccyx)

1. Obsolete spelling of cóccix (used in Portugal until September 1911 and in Brazil until the 1940s).