fontanelle

English

a diagram of the top view of a baby's head, showing the fontanelle in the center.

Alternative forms

• fontanel

Etymology

Borrowed from French fontanelle, from Old French fontenelle, a diminutive of fontaine (“fountain, spring”) +‎ -elle, from Late Latin fontāna, from Latin fontānus, from font- +‎ -ānus. By surface analysis, font +‎ -an +‎ -elle.

Noun

fontanelle (plural fontanelles)

1. (anatomy) A soft membraneous spot on the head of a baby due to incomplete fusion of the cranial bones.
2. (music) A structural component of some woodwind instruments, such as recorders and shawms, resembling a barrel with holes bored into it, designed to protect the keywork and to allow the sound to project.

Synonyms

• soft spot

Derived terms

• fontanellar
• transfontanelle

Translations

soft spot on a baby's head

• Arabic: يَأْفُوخ m (yaʔfūḵ)

  Egyptian Arabic: يافوخ m (yāfūḵ)

• Azerbaijani: əmgək sg
• Belarusian: це́мечка n (cjémječka)
• Breton: feunteunig (br) f
• Bulgarian: фонтане́ла f (fontanéla)
• Catalan: fontanel·la f
• Cebuano: hubon
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 囟門 / 囟门 (zh) (xìnmén), 囟腦門兒 / 囟脑门儿 (zh) (xìnnǎoménr)

• Czech: lupínek m, fontanela f
• Dutch: fontanel (nl) m or f
• Farefare: zulika
• Finnish: aukile (fi)
• French: fontanelle (fr) f
• Galician: moleira (gl) f, fontanela (gl) f
• Georgian: ყიფლიანდი (q̇ipliandi), ყიფლიბანდი (q̇iplibandi)
• German: Fontanelle (de) f
• Hebrew: מַרְפֵּס (he)
• Hungarian: kutacs (hu), feje lágya
• Icelandic: hausamót n pl
• Ido: fontanelo (io)
• Ilocano: lulonan
• Ingrian: lekama
• Irish: cró an chinn m, cró na baithise m
• Italian: fontanella (it) f
• Japanese: 泉門 (ja) (せんもん, senmon), 顋門 (ja) (ひよめき, hiyomeki)
• Kashubian: cemiączkò n
• Kazakh: еңбек (eñbek)
• Khmer: បង្ហើយ (km) (bɑnghaəy)
• Korean: 숨구멍 (sumgumeong), 정문 (ko) (jeongmun)
• Malay: fontanel, ubun-ubun (ms)
• Māori: wāhi tāmomo, pūmotomoto
• Persian: ملاج (fa) (malâj)
• Polish: ciemiączko (pl) n
• Portuguese: fontanela (pt) f, moleira (pt) f
• Romanian: fontanelă (ro) f
• Russian: родничо́к (ru) m (rodničók), те́мечко (ru) n (témečko)
• Slovak: fontanela f
• Spanish: fontanela (es) f, mollera (es) f
• Swedish: fontanell (sv) c
• Tagalog: bumbunan
• Telugu: బ్రహ్మరంధ్రము (te) (brahmarandhramu)
• Thai: กระหม่อม (th) (grà-mɔ̀m), ขม่อม (th) (kà-mɔ̀ɔm)
• Turkish: bıngıldak (tr), imik (tr)
• Ukrainian: джере́льце n (džerélʹce), ті́м'ячко n (tímʺjačko)
• Vietnamese: thóp (vi), mỏ ác (vi)
• Yoruba: àwùjẹ̀

Further reading

• fontanelle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Old French fontenelle.

Noun

fontanelle f (plural fontanelles)

1. fontanelle

Further reading

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

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fon.taˈnɛl.le/
• Rhymes: -ɛlle
• Hyphenation: fon‧ta‧nèl‧le

Noun

fontanelle f

1. plural of fontanella