spondyle

• spondyl

From Middle English spondile, spondyle, from Latin spondylus, from Ancient Greek σφόνδῠλος (sphóndŭlos, “vertebra”).

spondyle (plural spondyles)

1. (archaic, anatomy) A joint of the backbone; a vertebra.

• “spondyle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

From Latin spondylus (“vertebra; mussel”).

• IPA^(key): /spɔ̃.dil/

spondyle f (plural spondyles)

1. spiny oyster, thorny oyster (mollusc of the genus Spondylus)
2. spondyle (vertebra)

• “spondyle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

spondyle

1. vocative singular of spondylus

• “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.