spinula
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]spinula (plural spinulae)
- Alternative form of spinule
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Late Latin. Diminutive of spīna.
Noun
[edit]spīnula f (genitive spīnulae); first declension
- diminutive of spīna (“thorn”)
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | spīnula | spīnulae |
| genitive | spīnulae | spīnulārum |
| dative | spīnulae | spīnulīs |
| accusative | spīnulam | spīnulās |
| ablative | spīnulā | spīnulīs |
| vocative | spīnula | spīnulae |
Descendants
[edit]- Vulgar Latin: *spinla
- → English: spinule
- → French: spinule
- → Italian: spinula
- → Portuguese: espínula
- → Spanish: espínula
References
[edit]- “spinula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "spinula", 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)
- spinula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.