humeral
adjective, noun
humeral is an adjective meaning “Of, pertaining to, or near the humerus or shoulder” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-U-M-E-R-A-L, and it appears about once in every 6 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does humeral mean?
adjective
- 1
Of, pertaining to, or near the humerus or shoulder
noun
- 1
An oblong scarf worn round the priest's shoulders at certain parts of the Mass and of Benediction.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce humeral?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Neøn-humeral.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of humeral
- humerals plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is humeral?
Humeral appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 73,203rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Humeral in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of the humerus:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.