fontanelle

fontanelle

English

Diagram of the top view of a baby's head, showing the fontanelle in the center.

Alternative forms

• fontanel

Etymology

Borrowed from French fontanelle, from Old French fontenelle.

Noun

fontanelle (plural fontanelles)

1. (anatomy) A soft membraneous spot on the head of a baby due to incomplete fusion of the cranial bones.

Synonyms

• soft spot

Translations

soft spot on a baby's head

Arabic: يَأْفُوخ‎ m (yaʾfūḵ) Egyptian Arabic: يافوخ‎ m (yāfūḵ) Belarusian: це́мечка n (cjémječka) Breton: feunteunig (br) f Bulgarian: фонтане́ла f (fontanéla) Catalan: fontanel·la f Cebuano: hubon Chinese: Mandarin: 囟門／囟门 (zh) (xìnmén), 囟腦門兒／囟脑门儿 (zh) (xìnnǎoménr) Czech: fontanela f Finnish: aukile (fi) French: fontanelle (fr) f Galician: moleira (gl) f, fontanela (gl) f Georgian: ყიფლიანდი (q̇ipliandi), ყიფლიბანდი (q̇iplibandi) German: Fontanelle (de) f Hebrew: מַרְפֵּס‎ (he) Hungarian: kutacs (hu), feje lágya Icelandic: hausamót n pl Ido: fontanelo (io) Ilocano: lulonan Irish: cró an chinn m, cró na baithise m Italian: fontanella (it) f Japanese: 泉門 (せんもん, senmon), 顋門 (ひよめき, hiyomeki) Kashubian: cemiączkò n Kazakh: еңбек (eñbek) Korean: 숨구멍 (sumgumeong), 정문 (ko) (jeongmun) Malay: fontanel, ubun-ubun Maori: wāhi tāmomo, pūmotomoto Persian: ملاج‎ (fa) (malâj) Polish: ciemiączko n Portuguese: fontanela f, moleira (pt) f Romanian: fontanelă (ro) f Russian: родничо́к (ru) m (rodničók), те́мечко (ru) n (témečko) Slovak: fontanela f Spanish: fontanela f, mollera f Swedish: fontanell (sv) c Tagalog: bumbunan Thai: กระหม่อม (th) (grà-mɔ̀m), ขม่อม (th) (kà-mɔ̀ɔm) Turkish: bıngıldak (tr) Ukrainian: джере́льце n (džerélʹce), ті́м'ячко n (tímʺjačko) Vietnamese: thóp (vi) Westrobothnian: smot n Yoruba: àwùjẹ̀

Further reading

• fontanelle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Etymology

Old French fontenelle.

Noun

fontanelle f (plural fontanelles)

1. fontanelle

Further reading

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

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fon.taˈnɛl.le/
• Rhymes: -ɛlle
• Hyphenation: fon‧ta‧nèl‧le

Noun

fontanelle f

1. plural of fontanella