occipital

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.

• 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

occipital (not comparable)

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

occipital (plural occipitals)

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

• “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.

From occípit +‎ -al.

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

occipital m or f (masculine and feminine plural occipitals)

1. occipital

• lòbul occipital

occipital m (plural occipitals)

1. occipital bone

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

• IPA^(key): /ɔk.si.pi.tal/

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

1. (anatomy) occipital

   lobe occipital ― occipital lobe

• os occipital

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

occipital m or f (plural occipitais)

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

occipital m (plural occipitais)

1. (anatomy) the occipital bone

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

• Hyphenation: oc‧ci‧pi‧tal

occipital m or f (plural occipitais, not comparable)

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

occipital m (plural occipitais)

1. (anatomy) the occipital bone

   Hypernym: osso

   Holonym: crânio

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

Borrowed from French occipital.

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

1. occipital

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

• IPA^(key): /oɡθipiˈtal/ [oɣ̞.θi.piˈt̪al] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /oɡsipiˈtal/ [oɣ̞.si.piˈt̪al] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: oc‧ci‧pi‧tal

occipital m or f (masculine and feminine plural occipitales)

1. (anatomy) occipital

occipital m (plural occipitales)

1. occipital bone

   Synonym: hueso occipital

2. (muscle) occipitalis

   Synonym: músculo occipital

3. occipital lobe

   Synonym: lóbulo occipital

• “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