† prosopiumn.

Inflections: Plural prosopia.

Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek προσωπεῖον.

Etymology: < Hellenistic Greek προσωπεῖον mask ( < ancient Greek πρόσωπον face (see prosopon n.) + -εῖον, suffix forming nouns), with remodelling of the ending after Latin nouns in -ium. N.E.D. (1909) gives the pronunciation as (prǫsō^u·piɒ̆m) /prɒˈsəʊpɪəm/.

Zoology. Obsolete. rare.

Mivart's term for: the bones of a parrot's skull forming the upper mandible of the bill.

ΚΠ

1895 St. G. Mivart in Proc. Zool. Soc. 365 The Bony Beak or Prosopium. [Note] By this term I intend to denote the whole ossified mass in front of the cranio-facial articulation and the articulations of the zygomata and palatines. It includes the premaxilla, the maxillæ, maxillo-palatine processes, the nasals, and the ethmoidal and turbinal ossifications of the beak.

Derivatives

† prosopial adj. Obsolete rare

ΚΠ

1895 St. G. Mivart in Proc. Zool. Soc. 369 On either side a large aperture, the two forming the posterior prosopial nares.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2020).

单词	prosopium
释义	† prosopiumn. Inflections: Plural prosopia. Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek προσωπεῖον. Etymology: < Hellenistic Greek προσωπεῖον mask ( < ancient Greek πρόσωπον face (see prosopon n.) + -εῖον, suffix forming nouns), with remodelling of the ending after Latin nouns in -ium. N.E.D. (1909) gives the pronunciation as (prǫsō^u·piɒ̆m) /prɒˈsəʊpɪəm/. Zoology. Obsolete. rare. Mivart's term for: the bones of a parrot's skull forming the upper mandible of the bill. ΚΠ 1895 St. G. Mivart in Proc. Zool. Soc. 365 The Bony Beak or Prosopium. [Note] By this term I intend to denote the whole ossified mass in front of the cranio-facial articulation and the articulations of the zygomata and palatines. It includes the premaxilla, the maxillæ, maxillo-palatine processes, the nasals, and the ethmoidal and turbinal ossifications of the beak. Derivatives † prosopial adj. Obsolete rare ΚΠ 1895 St. G. Mivart in Proc. Zool. Soc. 369 On either side a large aperture, the two forming the posterior prosopial nares. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < n.1895
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