cerebrum

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.ɹɪb.ɹəm/

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

cerebrum (plural cerebra or cerebrums)

1. (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

   Hyponyms: cerebral hemisphere, cerebral cortex

   Holonym: forebrain

• cerebellum

• “cerebrum”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “cerebrum”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• cumberer

From Proto-Italic *kerazrom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂srom, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-. Compare Ancient Greek κᾰ́ρᾱ (kárā, “a head, face”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈke.re.brum/, [ˈkɛrɛbrʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.re.brum/, [ˈt͡ʃɛːrebrum]

cerebrum n (genitive cerebrī); second declension

1. 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
2. (anatomy) a skull
3. (botany) an upper pith

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• “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, →OCLC.

• cerebre, cerrebre, serabrum

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

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

cerebrum

1. (medicine) brain

• English: cerebrum

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