occipitalis
English
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from New Latin occipitālis, ellipsis of mūsculus occipitālis (“occipital muscle”). Doublet of occipital.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɑkˌsɪp.əˈteɪ.lɪs/
- Rhymes: -eɪlɪs
Noun
occipitalis (plural occipitales)
- (anatomy) A muscle of the head that arises from the lateral two-thirds of the superior nuchal lines and from the mastoid part of the temporal bone, inserts into the galea aponeurotica, and acts to move the scalp; it is sometimes considered to be part of the occipitofrontalis muscle.
- Coordinate term: frontalis
Translations
muscle
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References
- “occipitalis”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Latin
Etymology
From occiput (“the back of the head, occiput”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ok.ki.piˈtaː.lis/, [ɔkːɪpɪˈt̪äːlʲɪs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ot.t͡ʃi.piˈta.lis/, [otː͡ʃipiˈt̪äːlis]
Adjective
occipitālis (neuter occipitāle); third-declension two-termination adjective (Medieval Latin)
- (anatomy) occipital
Inflection
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | occipitālis | occipitāle | occipitālēs | occipitālia | |
| Genitive | occipitālis | occipitālium | |||
| Dative | occipitālī | occipitālibus | |||
| Accusative | occipitālem | occipitāle | occipitālēs occipitālīs | occipitālia | |
| Ablative | occipitālī | occipitālibus | |||
| Vocative | occipitālis | occipitāle | occipitālēs | occipitālia | |
Related terms
- occipitium
Descendants
- → English: occipitalis
- → Middle French: occipital
- → English: occipital
- French: occipital
- Italian: occipitale
- Sicilian: uccipitali