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/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (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: 枕的 (zh) (zhěn de) Czech: týlní (cs), okcipitální (cs) Dutch: occipitaal (nl) Finnish: takaraivo-, takaraivonluu- French: occipital (fr) Galician: occipital (gl) Greek: ινιακός (el) (iniakós) 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.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “occipital”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “occipital”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Catalan

Catalan Wikipedia has an article on:

occipital

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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]
  • (Porto Alegre) 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): /oɡθipiˈtal/ [oɣ̞.θi.piˈt̪al] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /oɡsipiˈtal/ [oɣ̞.si.piˈt̪al] (Latin America, Philippines)
• 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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• occipital on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es