# acromion
## English
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀκρώμιον (akrṓmion), variant of ἀκρωμία (akrōmía, “acromion”). Compare -ion, especially in acropodion.

### Pronunciation

* (US) IPA: /əˈkɹoʊ.mi.ən/

### Noun

acromion (plural acromions or acromia)
* (anatomy) The outermost point of the shoulder blade.
** 1807, William Beatty, The Death of Lord Nelson‎:"The ball struck the fore part of HIS LORDSHIP'S epaulette; and entered the left shoulder immediately before the processus acromion scapulae, which it slightly fractured.
** 1904, Alexis Thomson, Alexander Miles, Manual of Surgery‎:The deltoid is wasted, and the acromion unduly prominent.
** 1998 November 13, Paul C. Sereno et al., “A Long-Snouted Predatory Dinosaur from Africa and the Evolution of Spinosaurids”, in Science‎, volume 282, number 5392, →DOI, pages 1298–1302:Complete pectoral and pelvic bones show a deep subrectangular acromion on the scapula and a low obturator flange on the ischium.
** 1999 August 27, Steve Ward et al., “Equatorius: A New Hominoid Genus from the Middle Miocene of Kenya”, in Science‎, volume 285, number 5432, →DOI, pages 1382–1386:The preserved portions of the scapula are sufficient to determine that the acromion projected well beyond the glenoid and that the axillary margin was longer than the vertebral.
** 2009, Science‎, pages 2239–2242:The clavicle is a small flat bone like that of a dog (1), here preserved near the coracoid processes lying parallel to and slightly behind the acromion.

#### Derived terms

* acromial
* acromioplasty
* metacromion
* pseudoacromion

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Comorian, Románico, armonico, armónico, macroion

## French
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἄκρος (ákros), "highest" + Ancient Greek ὦμος (ômos), "shoulder".

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a.kʁɔ.mjɔ̃/

### Noun

acromion m (plural acromions)
* (anatomy) acromion

#### Derived terms

* acromial

### Further reading

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

## Latin
### Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀκρώμιον (akrṓmion).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /aˈkroː.mi.on/, [äˈkroːmiɔn]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /aˈkro.mi.on/, [äˈkrɔːmion]

### Noun

acrōmion n (genitive acrōmiī); second declension
* (anatomy) acromion

#### Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).

### References

* "acromia", 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)

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French acromion.

### Noun

acromion n (plural acromioane)
* acromion

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἄκρος (ákros, “highest”) + Ancient Greek ὦμος (ômos, “shoulder”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aˈkɾomjon/ [aˈkɾo.mjõn]
* Rhymes: -omjon
* Syllabification: a‧cro‧mion

### Noun

acromion m (plural acrómiones)
* (anatomy) acromion

#### Related terms

* acromial
* acromiano

### Further reading

* “acromion”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10