occipital

English

Etymology

Borrowing from Middle French occipital, from Medieval Latin occipitālis, from occiput (“the back of the head, occiput”) +‎ -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix), equivalent of occiput +‎ -al. Doublet of occipitalis.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ŏk-sĭp'-ĭt-əl
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɒkˈsɪp.ɪt.əl/, /ɒkˈsɪp.ɪt.l̩/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɑkˈsɪp.ət.l̩/
• Rhymes: -ɪpɪtəl

Adjective

occipital (not comparable)

1. (anatomy) Of, pertaining to, or located within or near the occiput (back of the head) or the occipital bone.

Derived terms

• atlanto-occipital, atlantooccipital, atlantoccipital
• basioccipital, basiooccipital
• craniooccipital
• epioccipital
• exooccipital, exoccipital
• frontooccipital, frontaloccipital
• interoccipital
• laterooccipital, lateraloccipital
• medioccipital
• midoccipital
• nonoccipital
• occipital artery
• occipital bone
• occipital bun
• occipital horn syndrome
• occipital lobe
• occipital nerve
• occipital point
• occipito-, occipit-
• otooccipital, otoccipital, oticooccipital
• paraoccipital, paroccipital
• parieto-occipital, parietooccipital
• ponto-geniculo-occipital
• postoccipital
• preoccipital
• sphenooccipital
• suboccipital
• superoccipital
• supraoccipital
• temporo-occipital, temporooccipital, temporoccipital
• temporoparietooccipital
• trachelo-occipital

 

Translations

of or pertaining to the occiput or occipital bone

• Bulgarian: тилов (tilov), на тила (na tila)
• Catalan: occipital
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 枕まくら的てき (zh) (zhěn de)

• Czech: týlní (cs), okcipitální (cs)
• Dutch: occipitaal (nl)
• Galician: occipital (gl)
• Hungarian: nyakszirti (hu)
• Irish: ocsapatach
• Italian: occipitale (it)
• Korean: (의학)후두부 ((uihak)hudubu)
• Polish: potyliczny (pl)
• Portuguese: occipital (pt)
• Russian: заты́лочный (ru) (zatýločnyj), окципита́льный (ru) (okcipitálʹnyj)
• Sicilian: uccipitali
• Spanish: occipital
• Turkish: oksipital

Noun

occipital (plural occipitals)

1. (anatomy) Ellipsis of occipital bone.
2. (zootomy) An occipital scale in reptiles.

Translations

occipital bone

• Bulgarian: тилова кост f (tilova kost)
• Catalan: occipital m
• Galician: occipital (gl) m
• Portuguese: occipital (pt) m
• Spanish: occipital m

References

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

Catalan

Etymology

From occípit +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

occipital m or f (masculine and feminine plural occipitals)

1. occipital

Derived terms

• lòbul occipital

Noun

occipital m (plural occipitals)

1. occipital bone

French

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin occipitālis, from Latin occiput (whence occiput).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔk.si.pi.tal/

Adjective

occipital (feminine occipitale, masculine plural occipitaux, feminine plural occipitales)

1. (anatomy) occipital

   lobe occipital ― occipital lobe

Derived terms

• os occipital

Further reading

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

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

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin occipitālis, from Latin occiput (“the back of the head”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /o.ki.si.piˈtaw/ [o.ki.si.piˈtaʊ̯], /ok.si.piˈtaw/ [ok.si.piˈtaʊ̯]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /o.ki.si.piˈtaw/ [o.ki.si.piˈtaʊ̯], /ok.si.piˈtaw/ [ok.si.piˈtaʊ̯]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ok.si.piˈtaw/ [ok.si.piˈtaʊ̯], /o.ki.si.piˈtaw/ [o.ki.si.piˈtaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔ.ksi.piˈtal/ [ɔ.ksi.piˈtaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔ.ksi.piˈtal/ [ɔ.ksi.piˈtaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔ.ksi.piˈta.li/

• Hyphenation: oc‧ci‧pi‧tal

Adjective

occipital m or f (plural occipitais, not comparable)

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French occipital.

Adjective

occipital m or n (feminine singular occipitală, masculine plural occipitali, feminine and neuter plural occipitale)

1. occipital

Declension

Declension of occipital

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	occipital		occipitală	occipitali	occipitale
	definite	occipitalul		occipitala	occipitalii	occipitalele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	occipital		occipitale	occipitali	occipitale
	definite	occipitalului		occipitalei	occipitalilor	occipitalelor

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin occipitālis, from Latin occiput (“the back of the head”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /oɡθしーたipiˈtal/ [oɣ̞.θしーたi.piˈt̪al]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /oɡsipiˈtal/ [oɣ̞.si.piˈt̪al]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: oc‧ci‧pi‧tal

Adjective

occipital m or f (masculine and feminine plural occipitales)

1. (anatomy) occipital

Derived terms

• lóbulo occipital
• 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 (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28
• occipital on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es