occipital

From Middle French occipital, from Medieval Latin occipitalis, from Latin occiput (“the back of the head”), from ob (“over against”) + caput (“head”).

occipital (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the occiput (back of the head) or the occipital bone.

occipital (plural occipitals)

1. (anatomy) The occipital bone.
2. An occipital scale in reptiles.

• occipital in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• occipital in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• occipital at OneLook Dictionary Search

occípit +‎ -al

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ok.si.piˈtal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /uk.si.piˈtal/

occipital (masculine and feminine plural occipitals)

1. occipital

occipital m (plural occipitals)

1. occipital bone

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

From New Latin occipitalis, from Latin occiput (“the back of the head”), from ob (“over against”) + caput (“head”), from Proto-Indo-European *kauput-.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ok.si.pi.ˈtaw/

occipital m or f (plural occipitais, not comparable)

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

• cabeça
• nuca
• occipício

occipital m (plural occipitais)

1. (anatomy) the occipital bone

• osso

• crânio

• parietal, frontal, temporal, esfenoide, etmoide

occipital (plural occipitales)

1. (anatomy) occipital

• parietooccipital
• suboccipital

occipital m (plural occipitales)

1. occipital bone
2. (muscle) occipitalis
3. occipital lobe

• (bone): hueso occipital
• (muscle): músculo occipital
• (occipital lobe): lóbulo occipital

• occipucio

• “occipital” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
• occipital on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es