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).

Case	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.