Faroese

Noun

spina f (genitive singular spinu, uncountable)

1. sperm

Declension

Synonyms

• sáð
• spin

Anagrams

• nispa
• pinsa
• pisan

Italian

Etymology

From Latin spina

Noun

spina f ‎(plural spine)

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

Derived terms

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *speyn-, *spiHn-. Cognates include Latvian spina and Russian спина ‎(spina).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈspiː.na/

Noun

spīna f ‎(genitive spīnae); first declension

1. thorn, spine, prickle
2. A low wall along the centre of a circus (race course)
3. (in the plural) difficulties

Inflection

First declension.

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• 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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “spina”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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, page 580