acephalus

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin acephalus.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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acephalus (countable and uncountable, plural acephali)

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

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Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek ἀκέφαλος (aképhalos, headless).

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Adjective

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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.

Declension

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First/second-declension adjective.

Descendants

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References

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  • 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

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