occipitium

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

occiput +‎ -ium

Noun

occipitium n (genitive occipitiī or occipitī); second declension

  1. back of the head, occiput

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative occipitium occipitia
Genitive occipitiī
occipitī1		 occipitiōrum
Dative occipitiō occipitiīs
Accusative occipitium occipitia
Ablative occipitiō occipitiīs
Vocative occipitium occipitia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants
  • Judeo-Italian: צֵיפֵיצוֹ (cepezzo)
  • Neapolitan: cepezzo

References
  • “occipitium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • occipitium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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