cervell

Inherited from Latin cerebellum (compare Occitan cervèl, French cerveau, Italian cervello), diminutive of cerebrum, from Proto-Italic *kerazrom, from a Proto-Indo-European form *ḱerh₂-s-ro, from the root *ḱerh₂- (“head”). See also cerebel, which is a later re-borrowing.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [sərˈbeʎ]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [sərˈveʎ]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [seɾˈveʎ]

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• Rhymes: -eʎ

cervell m (plural cervells)

1. brain

• rentar el cervell
• rentat de cervell

• cerebel
• cerebral

• “cervell”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “cervell” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Akin to Italian cervello, from Latin cerebrum.

cervell

1. brain