Where does “occipital” come from?
Occipital comes from Middle French occipital, from Latin occipitalis, an adjective formed from Latin caput meaning head, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European kauput- or kapōlo.
occipital (English): Of or pertaining to the occiput or the occipital...
Definitions
- Of or pertaining to the occiput or the occipital...
Ancestry of “occipital”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | occipital | — |
| 2 | Latin | occipitalis | occipital |
| 3 | Latin | occiput | back of the head, occiput |
| 4 | Latin | ob- | towards; against |
| 5 | Latin | obolus | obolus (Greek coin) |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | ὀβολός | obol, obolus, used at Athens as both a weight and... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | ὀβελός | a spit, rod; a horizontal line |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | βέλος | missile, arrow, dart; weapon; something quickly... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷélHos | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷelH- | to throw, reach, pierce; to hit by throwing |
Words derived from “occipital”
- suboccipital
- atlantooccipital
- parietooccipital
- basioccipital
- supraoccipital
- preoccipital
- occipitally
- paroccipital
- temporooccipital
- midoccipital
- frontooccipital
- temporoparietooccipital
- interoccipital
- superoccipital
- paraoccipital
- nonoccipital
- otoccipital
- cervicooccipital
- craniooccipital
- epioccipital
- exoccipital
- hyperoccipital
- infraoccipital
- lateraloccipital