"cephalic" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /sɪˈfælɪk/ [US], /ˈsɛfəlɪk/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-cephalic.wav [Southern-England] Forms: more cephalic [comparative], most cephalic [superlative], cephalick [alternative]
enPR: sĭfăl' ĭk [US] Etymology: From Middle French céphalique, from Latin cephalicus (“head”), from Ancient Greek κεφαλικός (kephalikós, “capital”), from κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*gʰebʰ-}}, {{ety|en|:bor|frm:céphalique|tree=1}} [Appendix:Glossary#loanword|Borrowed]] from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Middle French", "term" : "céphalique", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "frm" } ], "keyword" : "bor" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "cephalic", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }" data-lang="en" data-title="cephalic">, {{uder|en|frm|céphalique}} Middle French céphalique, {{uder|en|la|cephalicus||head}} Latin cephalicus (“head”), {{uder|en|grc|κεφαλικός||capital}} Ancient Greek κεφαλικός (kephalikós, “capital”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} cephalic (comparative more cephalic, superlative most cephalic)
  1. Of or relating to the head.
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  2. Of or relating to the head.
    Of or relating to the brain.
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  3. Of or relating to the head.
    Of or relating to the cephalon (the head of a trilobite).
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  4. (anatomical terms of location and direction) Toward the head; in bipeds such as humans, this direction corresponds to superior. Synonyms: cephalad
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  5. Headlike; cephaloid.
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: cephalo-, -cephalic Translations (of or referring to the head): رَأْسِيّ (raʔsiyy) (Arabic), галаўны́ (halawný) (Belarusian), cefàlic (Catalan), سەری (serî) (Central Kurdish), testa (Esperanto), kefaalinen (Finnish), céphalique (French), Kopf- (German), κεφαλικός (kefalikós) (Greek), cefalico (Italian), głowowy (Polish), cefálico (Portuguese), головно́й (golovnój) (Russian), cefálico (Spanish), uluhin (Tagalog), pang-ulo (Tagalog), sefalik (Turkish), başçıl (Turkish), головни́й (holovnýj) (Ukrainian)

Noun [English]

IPA: /sɪˈfælɪk/ [US], /ˈsɛfəlɪk/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-cephalic.wav [Southern-England] Forms: cephalics [plural], cephalick [alternative]
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  1. (medicine, obsolete) A remedy that benefits the head or brain. Tags: obsolete
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Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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