different between occipitals vs occipital

English

Noun

occipitals

1. plural of occipital

Anagrams

• scapolitic

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French occipital, from Medieval Latin occipit?lis, from occiput (“the back of the head, occiput”) +? -?lis (“-al”, adjectival suffix), equivalent of occiput +? -al. Doublet of occipitalis.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?k-s?p'-?t-?l
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?s?p.?t.?l/, /?k?s?p.?t.l?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?s?p.?t.l?/
• Rhymes: -?p?t?l

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

Translations

Noun

occipital (plural occipitals)

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

Translations

References

• “occipital”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “occipital”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
• occipital in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• occipital at OneLook Dictionary Search

Catalan

Etymology

occípit +? -al

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ok.si.pi?tal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /uk.si.pi?tal/
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

occipital (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 occipit?lis, from Latin occiput (whence occiput).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k.si.pi.tal/

Adjective

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

1. (anatomy) occipital

Derived terms

• os occipital

Further reading

• “occipital” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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 occipit?lis, from Latin occiput (“the back of the head”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ok.si.pi.?taw/

Adjective

occipital m or f (plural occipitais, not comparable)

1. (anatomy) occipital (pertaining to the back of the head)

Related terms

Noun

occipital m (plural occipitais)

1. (anatomy) the occipital bone

   Hypernym: osso

   Holonym: crânio

   Coordinate terms: parietal, frontal, temporal, esfenoide, etmoide

Romanian

Etymology

From French occipital

Adjective

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

1. occipital

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin occipit?lis, from Latin occiput (“the back of the head”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /o??ipi?tal/, [o??.?i.pi?t?al]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /o?sipi?tal/, [o??.si.pi?t?al]

Adjective

occipital (plural occipitales)

1. (anatomy) occipital

Derived terms

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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
• occipital on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es