acephalus

From Latin acephalus.

• IPA^(key): /eɪˈsɛfələs/

acephalus (countable and uncountable, plural acephali)

1. (medicine, countable) A fetus affected by acephaly.
2. (medicine, uncountable) The condition of acephaly.

• acardiacus acephalus

• acephali
• acephalous

• acephalos

From Ancient Greek ἀκέφαλος (aképhalos, “headless”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈke.pʰa.lus/, [äˈkɛpʰäɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈt͡ʃe.fa.lus/, [äˈt͡ʃɛːfälus]

acephalus (feminine acephala, neuter acephalum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Without a head, chief or leader.
2. Of a hexameter which begins with a short syllable.
3. Acephalite; pertaining to a Monophysite heresy.
   • c. 703, Bede, Chronica Minor:

     Hoc tempore eadem acephalorum heresis sub anathemate condemnatur.

     At the same time [as the reign of Justinian, son of Heraclius], the headless ones' heresy was condemned with anathema.

4. (Medieval Latin) Heathen.
5. (Medieval Latin, of a bishop) Without a fixed diocese.

First/second-declension adjective.

• → English: acephalous
• → Middle French: acephale
  • French: acéphale
• → Portuguese: acéfalo
• → Spanish: acéfalo

• “acephalus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• acephalus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “acephalus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill

• Paulicianism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia