-cephaly

English

Etymology

From French -céphalie, German -zephalie, or Latin -cephalia, from Ancient Greek κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”) and a suffix: French -ie, German -ie, or Latin -ia.[1]

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɛfəli

Suffix

-cephaly

  1. (medicine, pathology) head

Derived terms

English terms suffixed with -cephaly
abrachiocephaly
acephaly
acrocephaly
bicephaly
brachycephaly
cebocephaly
colpocephaly
cynocephaly
dicephaly
dolichocephaly
ethmocephaly
heterocephaly
lissencephaly
macrocephaly
megacephaly
megalocephaly
microcephaly
monocephaly
nanocephaly
normocephaly
orthocephaly
otocephaly
oxycephaly
pachycephaly
plagiocephaly
polycephaly
scaphocephaly
schizocephaly
trigonocephaly
turricephaly

Translations

References

  1. ^ “-cephaly”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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