# occiput
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɒk.sɪ.pʌt/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˈɑk.səˌpʌt/, /ˈɑk.səp.ət/

### Noun

occiput (plural occipita or occiputs)
* (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’.

#### Derived terms

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

#### Translations
### References

* “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.

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin occiput.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɔk.si.pyt/

### Noun

occiput m (plural occiputs)
* (anatomy) occiput
    Antonym: sinciput

#### Related terms

* chef
* occipital

### Further reading

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

## Latin
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

occiput n (genitive occipitis); third declension
* (anatomy) The back part of the head, the poll; occiput.
    Synonym: occipitium

#### Inflection

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

#### Derived terms

* occipitium
* occipitālis (New Latin)

#### Descendants

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

### References

* “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.

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin occiput.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ok.siˈpu.t͡ʃi/, /ok.siˈput͡ʃ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ok.siˈpu.t͡ʃi/, /ok.siˈput͡ʃ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ok.siˈput͡ʃ/, /ok.siˈpu.t͡ʃi/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɔ.ksiˈput/
* Hyphenation: oc‧ci‧put

### Noun

occiput m (plural occiputs)
* (anatomy) occiput (back of the head or skull)
    Synonyms: occipício, occipúcio, occipital

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French occiput, from Latin occiput.

### Noun

occiput n (plural occiputuri)
* occiput