occiput

Borrowed from Latin occiput (“the back part of the head”). Compare sinciput.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɒk.sɪ.pʌt/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɑk.səˌpʌt/, /ˈɑk.səp.ət/

occiput (plural occipita or occiputs)

1. (chiefly anatomy) The back part of the head or skull.

   Antonym: sinciput

   • 1953, Isaac Asimov, “9: The Conspirators”, in Second Foundation (Foundation Series), Panther Books Ltd, Part II: Search by the Foundation, page 95:

     And then came Turbor, who sat quietly and unemotionally through the fifteen minute process, and Munn, who jerked at the first touch of the electrodes, and then spent the session rolling his eyes as though he wished he could turn them backwards and watch through a hole in his occiput.

   • 2002, Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel, published 2008:

     He wore a large white cotton Nubian shirt, trimmed with red pompons, and shaved his head, except for one lock at the occiput ‘by which Mohammed lifts you up on Judgement Day’.

• basiocciput
• occipital (adjective)
• occipito-, occipit-
• supraocciput

• “occiput”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “occiput”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “occiput”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “occiput”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Borrowed from Latin occiput.

• IPA^(key): /ɔk.si.pyt/

occiput m (plural occiputs)

1. (anatomy) occiput

   Antonym: sinciput

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

From ob- (“at, before, over”) +‎ caput (“the head”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈok.ki.put/, [ˈɔkːɪpʊt̪]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈot.t͡ʃi.put/, [ˈɔtː͡ʃiput̪]

occiput n (genitive occipitis); third declension

1. (anatomy) The back part of the head, the poll; occiput.

   Synonym: occipitium

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• occipitium
• occipitālis (New Latin)

• English: occiput
• French: occiput
• Italian: occipite
• Portuguese: occiput
• Sicilian: uccìpiti

• “occiput”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• occiput in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Unadapted borrowing from Latin occiput.

• Hyphenation: oc‧ci‧put

occiput m (plural occiputs)

1. (anatomy) occiput (back of the head or skull)

   Synonyms: occipício, occipúcio, occipital

Borrowed from French occiput, from Latin occiput.

occiput n (plural occiputuri)

1. occiput