sternocleidomastoides
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From sternum (“the breastbone”) + Ancient Greek κλείς (kleís, “the collarbone”) + mastoīdēs (“like a breast”). Doublet of sternocleidomastoīdeus.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ster.no.kle.i.do.mas.toˈi.des/, [st̪ernokleid̪omäst̪oˈiːd̪es]
Adjective
[edit]sternocleidomastoīdēs (neuter sternocleidomastoīdes or sternocleidomastoīdēs); third-declension one-termination adjective (Greek-type) (New Latin)
- (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the breastbone, collarbone and the mastoid process of the temporal bone; sternocleidomastoid.
Inflection
[edit]Third-declension one-termination adjective (Greek-type).
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | sternocleidomastoīdēs | sternocleidomastoīdes1 sternocleidomastoīdēs |
sternocleidomastoīdēs | sternocleidomastoīdia | |
Genitive | sternocleidomastoīdis | sternocleidomastoīdum sternocleidomastoīdium | |||
Dative | sternocleidomastoīdī | sternocleidomastoīdibus | |||
Accusative | sternocleidomastoīdem | sternocleidomastoīdes1 sternocleidomastoīdēs |
sternocleidomastoīdēs | sternocleidomastoīdia | |
Ablative | sternocleidomastoīde sternocleidomastoīdī |
sternocleidomastoīdibus | |||
Vocative | sternocleidomastoīdes1 sternocleidomastoīdēs |
sternocleidomastoīdēs | sternocleidomastoīdia |
1It is unknown if Classical Latin preserved (or would have preserved) the shortness of the original Greek short ending.
Descendants
[edit]- → English: sternocleidomastoid
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