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a diagram of the top view of a baby's head, showing the fontanelle in the center.

• fontanel

Borrowed from French fontanelle, from Old French fontenelle, a diminutive of fontaine (“fountain, spring”) +‎ -elle, from Late Latin fontāna, from Latin fontānus, from font- +‎ -ānus. By surface analysis, font +‎ -an +‎ -elle.

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fontanelle (plural fontanelles)

1. (anatomy) A soft membraneous spot on the head of a baby due to incomplete fusion of the cranial bones.
2. (music) A structural component of some woodwind instruments, such as recorders and shawms, resembling a barrel with holes bored into it, designed to protect the keywork and to allow the sound to project.

• soft spot

• fontanellar

• transfontanelle

soft spot on a baby's head

• Arabic: يَأْفُوخ m (yaʔfūḵ)
  Egyptian Arabic: يافوخ m (yāfūḵ)

• Azerbaijani: əmgək sg

• Belarusian: це́мечка n (cjémječka)

• Breton: feunteunig (br) f

• Bulgarian: фонтане́ла f (fontanéla)

• Catalan: fontanel·la f

• Cebuano: hubon

• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 囟門 / 囟门 (zh) (xìnmén), 囟腦門兒 / 囟脑门儿 (zh) (xìnnǎoménr)

• Czech: lupínek m, fontanela f

• Dutch: fontanel (nl) m or f

• Farefare: zulika

• Finnish: aukile (fi)

• French: fontanelle (fr) f

• Galician: moleira (gl) f, fontanela (gl) f

• Georgian: ყიფლიანდი (q̇ipliandi), ყიფლიბანდი (q̇iplibandi)

• German: Fontanelle (de) f

• Hebrew: מַרְפֵּס (he)

• Hungarian: kutacs (hu), feje lágya

• Icelandic: hausamót n pl

• Ido: fontanelo (io)

• Ilocano: lulonan

• Ingrian: lekama

• Irish: cró an chinn m, cró na baithise m

• Italian: fontanella (it) f

• Japanese: 泉門 (ja) (せんもん, senmon), 顋門 (ja) (ひよめき, hiyomeki)

• Kashubian: cemiączkò n

• Kazakh: еңбек (eñbek)

• Khmer: បង្ហើយ (km) (bɑnghaəy)

• Korean: 숨구멍 (sumgumeong), 정문 (ko) (jeongmun)

• Malay: fontanel, ubun-ubun (ms)

• Māori: wāhi tāmomo, pūmotomoto

• Persian: ملاج (fa) (malâj)

• Polish: ciemiączko (pl) n

• Portuguese: fontanela (pt) f, moleira (pt) f

• Romanian: fontanelă (ro) f

• Russian: родничо́к (ru) m (rodničók), те́мечко (ru) n (témečko)

• Slovak: fontanela f

• Spanish: fontanela (es) f, mollera (es) f

• Swedish: fontanell (sv) c

• Tagalog: bumbunan

• Telugu: బ్రహ్మరంధ్రము (te) (brahmarandhramu)

• Thai: กระหม่อม (th) (grà-mɔ̀m), ขม่อม (th) (kà-mɔ̀ɔm)

• Turkish: bıngıldak (tr), imik (tr)

• Ukrainian: джере́льце n (džerélʹce), ті́м'ячко n (tímʺjačko)

• Vietnamese: thóp (vi), mỏ ác (vi)

• Yoruba: àwùjẹ̀

• fontanelle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Old French fontenelle.

fontanelle f (plural fontanelles)

1. fontanelle

• “fontanelle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
• IPA(key): /fon.taˈnɛl.le/
• Rhymes: -ɛlle
• Hyphenation: fon‧ta‧nèl‧le

fontanelle f

1. plural of fontanella