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spina

See also: Appendix:Variations of "spina"

English

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Latin spīna (“a thorn; a prickle, spine”). Doublet of spine.

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Noun

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spina (plural spinae)

  1. (anatomy) A spine; the backbone.
  2. (music) One of the quills of a spinet.
  3. (historical) A barrier dividing the Ancient Roman hippodrome longitudinally.
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Esperanto

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Etymology

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From spino +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈspina]
  • Rhymes: -ina
  • Hyphenation: spi‧na

Adjective

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spina (accusative singular spinan, plural spinaj, accusative plural spinajn)

  1. spinal

Faroese

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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Noun

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spina f (genitive singular spinu, uncountable)

  1. sperm

Declension

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Declension of spina (singular only)
f1s singular
indefinite definite
nominative spina spinan
accusative spinu spinuna
dative spinu spinuni
genitive spinu spinunnar

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Noun

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spina (plural spìneus) (Piemontais)

  1. Alternative form of èpena (“thorn”)

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  • spina in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Gallurese

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Etymology

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From Classical Latin spīna, from Proto-Italic *speinā, from Proto-Indo-European *spey-neh₂, derived from the root *spey- (“long; thin; sharp”).

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Noun

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spina f (plural spini)

  1. thorn

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mauro Maxia (2012) Fonetica storica del gallurese e delle altre varietà sardocorse (in Gallurese), Editrice Taphros, →ISBN

Italian

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Etymology

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From Latin spīna, from Proto-Italic *speinā, from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“sharp point”).

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  • IPA(key): /ˈspi.na/
  • Rhymes: -ina
  • Hyphenation: spì‧na

Noun

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spina f (plural spine, diminutive spinétta)

  1. thorn
  2. spine, prickle
  3. plug (electrical)
  4. bone (of fish)
  5. bunghole

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Further reading

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  • spina in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
  • spina in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Latin

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Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *speinā, from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“sharp point”).

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spīna f (genitive spīnae); first declension

  1. (literal) a thorn or a thorny tree or shrub, such as whitethorn, hawthorn, or blackthorn
  2. (transferred sense)
    1. (zootomy) a thorn, spine, prickle
    2. (zootomy) a fishbone
    3. (anatomy) the backbone, spine
    4. a low wall along the centre of a circus (racecourse); a barrier
    5. a toothpick
  3. (figurative, in the plural)
    1. (Classical Latin, Medieval Latin) thorns, difficulties, subtleties, perplexities in speaking and debating
      • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.15.19:
        Iter pigrōrum quasi sēpēs spīnārum; via iūstōrum absque offendiculō.
        The way of the slothful is as a hedge of thorns; the way of the just is without offence.
        (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.: 1752 CE)
    2. cares
    3. errors
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Inflection

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First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative spīna spīnae
genitive spīnae spīnārum
dative spīnae spīnīs
accusative spīnam spīnās
ablative spīnā spīnīs
vocative spīna spīnae

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Descendants

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See also spīnus.

References

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  • “spina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “spina”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • spina in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • spina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • subtleties of logic; dilemmas: disserendi spinae (Fin. 4. 28. 79)
    • minute, captious subdivisions and definitions: spinae partiendi et definiendi (Tusc. 5. 8. 22)
  • “spina”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “spina”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • “spina”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 580
  • “spina”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

Middle English

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Noun

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spina

  1. Alternative form of spyne

Polish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈspi.na/
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  • Rhymes: -ina
  • Syllabification: spi‧na

Etymology 1

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Deverbal from spinać się.

Noun

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spina f

  1. (slang) sudden jitters or anxiety
Declension
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Declension of spina
singular plural
nominative spina spiny
genitive spiny spin
dative spinie spinom
accusative spinę spiny
instrumental spiną spinami
locative spinie spinach
vocative spino spiny

Etymology 2

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Back-formation from spinka.

Noun

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spina f

  1. (dated) Augmentative of spinka (“fastener”)
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Declension of spina
singular plural
nominative spina spiny
genitive spiny spin
dative spinie spinom
accusative spinę spiny
instrumental spiną spinami
locative spinie spinach
vocative spino spiny

Etymology 3

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Learned borrowing from Latin spīna.

Noun

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spina f

  1. (obsolete) spine, vertebral column
    Synonym: kręgosłup
Declension
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Declension of spina
singular plural
nominative spina spiny
genitive spiny spin
dative spinie spinom
accusative spinę spiny
instrumental spiną spinami
locative spinie spinach
vocative spino spiny
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Descendants
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Etymology 4

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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spina

  1. third-person singular present of spinać

Further reading

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  • spina in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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