occipital

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French occipital, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin occipitalis, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin occiput (“the back of the head”), from ob (“over against”) + caput (“head”).

Adjective

occipital (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the occiput (back of the head) or the occipital bone.

Derived terms

• occipital arch
• occipital artery
• occipital bone
• occipital bun
• occipital condyle
• occipital crest
• occipital cryoneurolysis
• occipital ganglion
• occipital groove
• occipital lobe
• occipital nerve
• occipital neuralgia
• occipital pole
• occipital protuberance
• occipital ridge
• occipital scale
• occipital sinus
• occipital triangle
• occipital vein
• otoccipital

 

Translations

of or pertaining to the occiput (back of the head) or the occipital bone

• Catalan: occipital
• Czech: týlní (cs), okcipitální (cs)
• Galician: occipital (gl)
• Hungarian: nyakszirti
• Irish: ocsapatach
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: (의학)후두부 ((uihak)hudubu)
• Polish: potyliczny (pl)
• Portuguese: occipital (pt)
• Russian: заты́лочный (ru) (zatýločnyj), окципита́льный (ru) (okcipitálʹnyj)
• Spanish: occipital

Noun

occipital (plural occipitals)

1. (anatomy) The occipital bone.
2. An occipital scale in reptiles.

Translations

occipital bone

• Catalan: occipital m
• Galician: occipital (gl) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: occipital (pt) m
• Spanish: occipital m

Further reading

• “occipital”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “occipital”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “occipital”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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Catalan

Etymology

occípit +‎ -al

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [uk.si.piˈtal]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ok.si.piˈtal]

Adjective

occipital m or f (masculine and feminine plural occipitals)

1. occipital

Noun

occipital m (plural occipitals)

1. occipital bone

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Galician

Adjective

occipital m or f (plural occipitais)

1. (anatomy) occipital, pertaining to the back of the head

Noun

occipital m (plural occipitais)

1. (anatomy) the occipital bone

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Portuguese

Etymology

From New Latin occipitālis, from Latin occiput (“the back of the head”), from ob (“over against”) + caput (“head”), from Proto-Indo-European *kauput-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ok.si.pi.ˈtaw/

Adjective

1. (anatomy) occipital (pertaining to the back of the head)

Related terms

• cabeça
• nuca
• occipício

 

Noun

occipital m (plural occipitais)

1. (anatomy) the occipital bone

   Hypernym: osso

   Holonym: crânio

   Coordinate terms: parietal, frontal, temporal, esfenoide, etmoide

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /oɡθipiˈtal/ [oɣ̞.θi.piˈt̪al]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /oɡsipiˈtal/ [oɣ̞.si.piˈt̪al]

Adjective

occipital m or f (masculine and feminine plural occipitales)

1. (anatomy) occipital

Derived terms

• parietooccipital
• suboccipital

 

Noun

occipital m (plural occipitales)

1. occipital bone

   Synonym: hueso occipital

2. (muscle) occipitalis

   Synonym: músculo occipital

3. occipital lobe

   Synonym: lóbulo occipital

Related terms

• occipucio

Further reading

• “occipital”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• occipital on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es