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Where does “parietal” come from?

Parietal comes from Latin parietalis, formed from Latin pariēs (wall) plus the suffix -alis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European -li-.

parietal (English): Of or relating to the wall of a body part, organ...

Definitions

  1. Of or relating to the wall of a body part, organ...

Ancestry of “parietal”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinparietālis—
2Latin-ālis—
3Proto-Italic-ālis—

Words derived from “parietal”

  • intraparietal
  • temporoparietal
  • frontoparietal
  • biparietal
  • occipitoparietal
  • interparietal
  • centroparietal
  • parietally
  • visceroparietal
  • transparietal
  • postparietal
  • posteroparietal
  • centroparietally
  • epiparietal
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