Borrowing fromMiddle Frenchoccipital, fromMedieval Latinoccipitālis, fromocciput(“the back of the head, occiput”) +-ālis(“-al”,adjectival suffix), equivalent ofocciput +-al.Doublet ofoccipitalis.
occipital (notcomparable)
- (anatomy) Of, pertaining to, or located within or near theocciput(back of the head) or theoccipital bone.
- atlanto-occipital,atlantooccipital,atlantoccipital
- basioccipital,basiooccipital
- cervicooccipital
- craniooccipital
- epioccipital
- exooccipital,exoccipital
- frontooccipital,frontaloccipital
- hyperoccipital
- infraoccipital
- interoccipital
- laterooccipital,lateraloccipital
- medioccipital
- midoccipital
- nonoccipital
- occipital artery
- occipital bone
- occipital bun
- occipital horn syndrome
- occipital lobe
- occipitally
- 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
of or pertaining to the occiput or occipital bone
occipital (pluraloccipitals)
- (anatomy)Ellipsis ofoccipital bone.
- (zootomy) Anoccipitalscale inreptiles.
- “occipital”, inLexico,Dictionary.com;Oxford University Press,2019–2022.
- “occipital”, inMerriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “occipital”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
- “occipital”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.
Fromoccípit +-al.
occipital m orf (masculine and feminine pluraloccipitals)
- occipital
occipital m (pluraloccipitals)
- occipital bone
Borrowed fromNew Latinoccipitālis, fromLatinocciput (whenceocciput).
occipital (feminineoccipitale,masculine pluraloccipitaux,feminine pluraloccipitales)
- (anatomy)occipital
- lobe occipital ―occipital lobe
occipital m orf (pluraloccipitais)
- (anatomy)occipital, pertaining to theback of thehead
occipital m (pluraloccipitais)
- (anatomy) theoccipital bone
Borrowed fromNew Latinoccipitālis, fromLatinocciput(“the back of the head”).
- (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]
occipital m orf (pluraloccipitais,notcomparable)
- (anatomy)occipital(pertaining to theback of thehead)
occipital m (pluraloccipitais)
- (anatomy) theoccipital bone
- Hypernym:osso
- Holonym:crânio
- Coordinate terms:parietal,frontal,temporal,esfenoide,etmoide
Borrowed fromFrenchoccipital.
occipital m orn (feminine singularoccipitală,masculine pluraloccipitali,feminine and neuter pluraloccipitale)
- occipital
Borrowed fromNew Latinoccipitālis, fromLatinocciput(“the back of the head”).
occipital m orf (masculine and feminine pluraloccipitales)
- (anatomy)occipital
occipital m (pluraloccipitales)
- occipital bone
- Synonym:hueso occipital
- (muscle)occipitalis
- Synonym:músculo occipital
- occipital lobe
- Synonym:lóbulo occipital
occipital on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipediaes