occipitium

Latin

Alternative forms

• occiput
• occipitum

Etymology

occiput +‎ -ium

Noun

occipitium n (genitive occipitiī or occipitī); second declension

1. back of the head, occiput

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	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.