spondyle
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English spondile, spondyle, from Latin spondylus, from Ancient Greek σφόνδῠλος (sphóndulos, “vertebra”).
Translations
joint of the backbone — see vertebra
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for spondyle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
French
Noun
spondyle f (plural spondyles)
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Further reading
- “spondyle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
References
- “spondyle”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- spondyle in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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