occiput

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin occiput (“the back part of the head”). Compare sinciput.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɒk.sɪ.pʌt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɑk.səˌpʌt/, /ˈɑk.səp.ət/

Noun

occiput (plural occipita or occiputs)

1. (chiefly anatomy) The back part of the head or skull.

   Antonym: sinciput

   • 1953, Isaac Asimov, “9: The Conspirators”, in Second Foundation (Foundation Series), Panther Books Ltd, Part II: Search by the Foundation, page 95:

     And then came Turbor, who sat quietly and unemotionally through the fifteen minute process, and Munn, who jerked at the first touch of the electrodes, and then spent the session rolling his eyes as though he wished he could turn them backwards and watch through a hole in his occiput.

   • 2002, Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel, published 2008:

     He wore a large white cotton Nubian shirt, trimmed with red pompons, and shaved his head, except for one lock at the occiput ‘by which Mohammed lifts you up on Judgement Day’.

Derived terms

• basiocciput
• occipital (adjective)
• occipito-, occipit-
• supraocciput

Translations

Translations

• Arabic: قَذَال m (qaḏāl)
• Armenian: ծոծրակ (hy) (cocrak)
• Aromanian: mãdular n
• Bulgarian: тил (bg) m (til)
• Catalan: occípit m
• Czech: týl (cs) m
• Dutch: achterhoofd (nl) n
• Esperanto: okcipito, postkranio
• Finnish: takaraivo (fi)
• French: occiput (fr) m
• German: Hinterkopf (de) m
• Hausa: kwanyā f
• Hungarian: tarkó (hu), nyakszirt (hu)
• Irish: cúlphlaic f, ocsapat m
• Italian: occipite (it) m
• Latgalian: pakauss m
• Latvian: pakausis (lv)
• Lithuanian: pakaušis
• Polish: potylica (pl) f
• Portuguese: occipício m, occipúcio m, occipital (pt) m, occiput m
• Russian: заты́лок (ru) (zatýlok)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: затиљак m

  Roman: zatiljak (sh) m

• Slovak: tylo n
• Spanish: occipucio (es) m, colodrillo (es) m
• Swedish: bakhuvud (sv) n
• Tagalog: pilipot, pangawol
• Thai: ท้ายทอย (th) (táai-tɔɔi)
• West Frisian: efterholle
• Yoruba: ìpàkọ́

References

• “occiput”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “occiput”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “occiput”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “occiput”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin occiput.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔk.si.pyt/

Noun

occiput m (plural occiputs)

1. (anatomy) occiput

   Antonym: sinciput

Related terms

• chef
• occipital

 

Further reading

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

Latin

Etymology

From ob- (“at, before, over”) +‎ caput (“the head”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈok.ki.put/, [ˈɔkːɪpʊt̪]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈot.t͡ʃi.put/, [ˈɔtː͡ʃiput̪]

Noun

occiput n (genitive occipitis); third declension

1. (anatomy) The back part of the head, the poll; occiput.

   Synonym: occipitium

Inflection

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	occiput	occipita
Genitive	occipitis	occipitum
Dative	occipitī	occipitibus
Accusative	occiput	occipita
Ablative	occipite occipitī	occipitibus
Vocative	occiput	occipita

Derived terms

• occipitium
• occipitālis (New Latin)

Descendants

• English: occiput
• French: occiput
• Italian: occipite
• Portuguese: occiput
• Sicilian: uccìpiti

References

• “occiput”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• occiput in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin occiput.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ok.siˈpu.t͡ʃi/, /ok.siˈput͡ʃ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ok.siˈpu.t͡ʃi/, /ok.siˈput͡ʃ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ok.siˈput͡ʃ/, /ok.siˈpu.t͡ʃi/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔ.ksiˈput/

• Hyphenation: oc‧ci‧put

Noun

occiput m (plural occiputs)

1. (anatomy) occiput (back of the head or skull)

   Synonyms: occipício, occipúcio, occipital

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French occiput, from Latin occiput.

Noun

occiput n (plural occiputuri)

1. occiput

Declension

Declension of occiput

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) occiput	occiputul	(niște) occiputuri	occiputurile
genitive/dative	(unui) occiput	occiputului	(unor) occiputuri	occiputurilor
vocative	occiputule		occiputurilor