occiput
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin occiput, occipitium (“the back part of the head”), from ob (“over against”) + caput (“head”). Compare sinciput.
Pronunciation
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Noun
occiput (plural occipita or occiputs)
- (chiefly anatomy) The back part of the head or skull (contradistinct from sinciput).
- Antonym: sinciput
- 1953, Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation (1971 Panther Books Ltd publication), part II: “Search by the Foundation”, chapter 9: ‘The Conspirators’, page 95, ¶ 8
- 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’.
Related terms
Translations
back of the head or skull
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Further reading
- “occiput”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “occiput”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “occiput”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
occiput m (plural occiputs)
Further reading
- “occiput”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈok.ki.put/, [ˈɔkːɪpʊt̪]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈot.t͡ʃi.put/, [ˈɔtː͡ʃiput̪]
Noun
occiput n (genitive occipitis); third declension
Declension
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
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
Noun
occiput m (plural s)
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