fontanelle.
A soft membraneous spot on the head of a baby due to incomplete fusion of the cranial bones.
Meaning & usage
A soft membraneous spot on the head of a baby due to incomplete fusion of the cranial bones.
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.
Where this word comes from
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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