cerebrum

English

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English cerebrum, from Latin cerebrum (“a brain; a skull”); see there for more.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.ɹɪb.ɹəm/
(General American) IPA^(key): /səˈɹi.bɹəm/, /ˈsɛɹ.əb.ɹəm/
Rhymes: -ɛɹɪbɹəm, -iːbɹəm

Noun

cerebrum (plural cerebra or cerebrums)

(neuroanatomy) The principal and most anterior part of the brain in vertebrates, which is located in the front area of the skull and divided into two hemispheres, left and right, separated by a fissure. In humans it is the largest part of the brain and is responsible for the integration of complex sensory functions and the initiation and coordination of voluntary activity, and the higher mental functions such as consciousness, thought, reason, emotion, and memory.
Synonym: telencephalon
Holonym: forebrain
Hyponyms: cerebral hemisphere, cerebral cortex

Derived terms

cerebral
cerebro-, cerebr-
cerebroid
deutocerebrum
hemicerebrum
mesocerebrum
procerebrum
protocerebrum
tritocerebrum

Related terms

cerebellum

Translations

principal part of the brain

Armenian: գլխուղեղ (hy) (glxułeł)
Bulgarian: главен мозък (glaven mozǎk)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 大腦／大脑 (zh) (dànǎo)
Czech: koncový mozek m
Danish: storhjerne (da)
Dutch: telencephalon
Esperanto: grandcerbo
Finnish: isot aivot pl, isotaivot
French: telencéphale m
German: Großhirn (de) n
Greek: εγκέφαλος (el) m (egkéfalos)
Hindi: प्रमस्तिष्क (pramastiṣk)
Hungarian: nagyagy (hu)
Icelandic: hjarni m
Ingrian: suur aivo
Irish: ceirbream m
Japanese: 大脳 (だいのう, dainō)
Kalmyk: тарг (targ)
Kazakh: соңғы ми (soñğy mi)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: mejî (ku) m
Latin: cerebrum n, telencephalon n
Malay: serebrum
Maori: roronui, roro hiringa
Mongolian: их тархи (ix tarxi)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: storhjerne m
Portuguese: telencéfalo (pt) m
Russian: головно́й мозг (ru) m (golovnój mozg)
Spanish: telencéfalo m
Swedish: storhjärna (sv) c
Tagalog: malaking-utak, utak-pang-isip
Telugu: పెద్దమెదడు (peddamedaḍu), బృహన్మస్తిష్కము (te) (br̥hanmastiṣkamu)
Vietnamese: đại não (大腦)

References

“cerebrum”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
“cerebrum”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

Anagrams

cumberer

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kerazrom, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-. Compare Ancient Greek κᾰ́ρᾱ (kárā, “a head, face”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈke.re.brum/, [ˈkɛrɛbrʊ̃ˑ]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.re.brum/, [ˈt͡ʃɛːrebrum]

Noun

cerebrum n (genitive cerebrī); second declension

a brain
- ca. 60 BCE, Titus Lucretius Carus, De Rerum Natura , Book 6, Lines 802-3:
  carbonumque gravis vis atque odor insinuatur / quam facile in cerebrum, nisi aqua praecepimus ante!
  And how the heavy fumes of charcoal wind their way / Readily into the brain, unless beforehand of water we've drunk!
1. (metonymically) understanding; anger, choler
(anatomy) a skull
(botany) an upper pith

Inflection

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cerebrum	cerebra
Genitive	cerebrī	cerebrōrum
Dative	cerebrō	cerebrīs
Accusative	cerebrum	cerebra
Ablative	cerebrō	cerebrīs
Vocative	cerebrum	cerebra

Derived terms

cerebellum (diminutive)
cerebrālis (adjective)
cerebrōsus (adjective)
excerebrō (verb)

Descendants

Descendants of cerebrum in other languages

Aromanian: crier
→ Asturian: cerebru
→ Middle English: cerebrum, cerebre, cerrebre, serabrum
- English: cerebrum
Esperanto: cerbo
⇒ French: cérébral
- → English: cerebral
→ Galician: cerebro
→ Ido: cerebro
→ Interlingua: cerebro
→ Italian: cerebro
→ Portuguese: cérebro
Romanian: creier
→ Spanish: cerebro
→ Turkish: serebrum

References

“cerebrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“cerebrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
cerebrum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
cerebrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
cerebrum in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

Middle English

Alternative forms

cerebre, cerrebre, serabrum

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cerebrum, from Proto-Italic *kerazrom.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsɛrəbrum/, /ˈsɛrəbrə/, /ˈsɛrəbər/

Noun

cerebrum

(medicine) brain

Descendants

English: cerebrum

References

“cerēbre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
“cerēbrum, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.