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語源

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

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɒk.sɪ.pʌt/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈɑk.səˌpʌt/, /ˈɑk.səp.ət/

名詞

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’.

派生語

関連する語

参照

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

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈɔk.kɪ.pʊt]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈɔt.t͡ʃi.put]

名詞

occiput n (genitive occipitis); third declension

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

   Synonym: occipitium

Inflection

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

派生語

• occipitium
• occipitālis (New Latin)

派生した語

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

参照

• “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.