death's-head

See also: death's head

English

Skulls and crossbones over the entrance to a cemetery.

Alternative forms

• death's head

Noun

death's-head (plural death's-heads)

1. A human skull, as symbol of death.
   • 1952, Ivanhoe‎^[1], archived from the original on 2018-08-21:

     To the confusion and confounding of that cursed death's-head knight.

2. A kind of hawk moth with pale markings on the back of the thorax somewhat like a skull.

Translations

a human skull, as symbol of death

• Classical Nahuatl: miquiztli, tzontecomatl
• Czech: smrtihlav m
• Dutch: doodshoofd (nl) n, doodskop (nl) m
• Finnish: pääkallo (fi)
• French: tête de mort (fr) f
• German: Totenkopf (de) m
• Hungarian: halálfej (hu), koponya (hu)
• Italian: teschio (it)
• Portuguese: caveira (pt) f
• Russian: мёртвая голова́ f (mjórtvaja golová)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мртвачка глава f

  Roman: mrtvačka glava (sh) f

• Spanish: calavera (es) f
• Swedish: dödskalle (sv) c

See also

• memento mori
• Jolly Roger
• skull and crossbones

Further reading

• human skull symbolism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Totenkopf on Wikipedia.Wikipedia