cervical

Borrowing from French cervical, from New Latin cervīcālis, from cervīx (“the neck, nape”) +‎ -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɜː.vɪk.l̩/, /sɜːˈvaɪ.kl̩/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɝ.vɪk.l̩/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)vɪkəl, -aɪkəl

cervical (not comparable)

1. (anatomy, relational) Of or pertaining to the neck.

   cervical pain

2. (anatomy, relational) Of or pertaining to the cervix.

   cervical cancer

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cervical (plural cervicals)

1. (anatomy) Ellipsis of cervical vertebra.

• “cervical”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “cervical”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Learned borrowing from New Latin cervicālis, formed from the root of Latin cervix (“the neck, nape of the neck”) and -alis (see -al).

• IPA^(key): /sɛʁ.vi.kal/

cervical (feminine cervicale, masculine plural cervicaux, feminine plural cervicales)

1. (anatomy) cervical

   vertèbre cervicale ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

• → English: cervical

• “cervical”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Borrowed from New Latin cervicalis, formed from the root of Latin cervix (“the neck, nape of the neck”) and -alis (see -al).

cervical m or f (plural cervicais)

1. (anatomy) cervical

• vértebra cervical

cervical (not comparable)

1. cervical

• cervice

• cervīcāle

Apocopated from cervīcāle, nominative neuter singular of cervīcālis, from cervīx (“the neck, nape”) +‎ -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kerˈu̯iː.kal/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃerˈvi.kal/,

cervīcal n (genitive cervīcālis); third declension

1. a pillow, cushion, bolster

   Synonyms: pulvīnus, culcita

   • c. 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae morales ad Lucilium 6.16.16:

     Cervicalia capitibus imposita linteis constringunt; id munimentum adversus incidentia fuit.

     They tied down pillows placed upon their heads with linen clothes; that was their protection against falling debris.

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

• cervīcālis

• “cervical”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cervical”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cervical in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• cervical in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “cervical”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cervical”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Borrowed from New Latin cervīcālis, formed from the root of Latin cervīx (“the neck, nape of the neck”) and -ālis (see -al). By surface analysis, cérvice +‎ -al.

• Rhymes: -al, -aw
• Hyphenation: cer‧vi‧cal

cervical m or f (plural cervicais)

1. (anatomy) cervical (relating to the cervix or neck)

• cérvice
• cerviz

cervical f (plural cervicais)

1. (anatomy) Ellipsis of vértebra cervical.

Borrowed from French cervical.

cervical m or n (feminine singular cervicală, masculine plural cervicali, feminine and neuter plural cervicale)

1. cervical

Borrowed from New Latin cervicālis, formed from the root of Latin cervix (“the neck, nape of the neck”) and -alis (see -al). Equivalent to cérvix +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θeɾbiˈkal/
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /seɾbiˈkal/
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: cer‧vi‧cal

cervical m or f (masculine and feminine plural cervicales)

1. cervical

• “cervical”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10