albaspina
See also: albaspină and alba spina
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Ultimately from Late Latin alba spīna, perhaps borrowed via another Romance language. (Von Wartburg indicates that the feminine version did not survive outside of Gallo-Romance.)[1]
Noun
[edit]albaspina f (plural albaspine)
- Synonym of biancospino
References
[edit]- ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “alba spina”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 298