The story
- Latin · borrowed fromsinciput“half a head”; “smoked hog’s cheek or half-jowl”; (transferred senses): “brain”, “head”
- English todaysinciput
Borrowed from Latin sinciput (“half a head”; “smoked hog’s cheek or half-jowl”; (transferred senses): “brain”, “head”), whence also the French sinciput.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.