spinula
English
Noun
spinula (plural spinulae)
- Alternative form of spinule.
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Late Latin. Diminutive of spīna.
Noun
spīnula f (genitive spīnulae); first declension
- diminutive of spīna (“thorn”)
Declension
First-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | spīnula | spīnulae |
| genitive | spīnulae | spīnulārum |
| dative | spīnulae | spīnulīs |
| accusative | spīnulam | spīnulās |
| ablative | spīnulā | spīnulīs |
| vocative | spīnula | spīnulae |
Descendants
- Vulgar Latin: *spinla
- Italian: spilla
- Sicilian: spiḍḍa
- → English: spinule
- → French: spinule
- → Italian: spinula
- → Portuguese: espínula
- → Spanish: espínula
References
- “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.