spina

Unadapted borrowing from Latin spīna (“a thorn; a prickle, spine”). Doublet of spine.

• IPA^(key): /ˈspaɪ.nə/
• Rhymes: -aɪnə

spina (plural spinae)

1. (anatomy) A spine; the backbone.
2. (music) One of the quills of a spinet.
3. (historical) A barrier dividing the Ancient Roman hippodrome longitudinally.

• spina bifida
• spina externa
• spina interna

• IP SAN, PAINS, PAINs, Pains, Pisan, Spain, aspin, nipas, pains, pinas, piñas

From spino +‎ -a.

• IPA^(key): [ˈspina]
• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: spi‧na

spina (accusative singular spinan, plural spinaj, accusative plural spinajn)

1. spinal

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• IPA^(key): /ˈspiːna/

spina f (genitive singular spinu, uncountable)

1. sperm

• sáð
• spin

• nispa
• pinsa
• pisan

From Latin spīna, from Proto-Italic *speinā, from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“sharp point”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈspi.na/
• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: spì‧na

spina f (plural spine)

1. thorn
2. spine, prickle
3. plug (electrical)
4. bone (of fish)
5. bunghole

• spino

• naspi, spani

From Proto-Italic *speinā, from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“sharp point”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈspiː.na/, [ˈs̠piːnä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈspi.na/, [ˈspiːnä]

spīna f (genitive spīnae); first declension

1. (literally) a thorn or a thorny tree or shrub, such as whitethorn, hawthorn, or blackthorn
2. (transferred sense)
   1. (zootomy) a thorn, spine, prickle
   2. (zootomy) a fishbone
   3. (anatomy) the backbone, spine
   4. a low wall along the centre of a circus (racecourse); a barrier
   5. a toothpick
3. (figurative, in the plural)
   1. (Classical Latin, Medieval Latin) thorns, difficulties, subtleties, perplexities in speaking and debating
      • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs 15:19:

        Iter pigrōrum quasi sēpēs spīnārum; via iūstōrum absque offendiculō.

        The way of the slothful is as a hedge of thorns; the way of the just is without offence.
        (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.: 1752 CE)

   2. cares
   3. errors

First-declension noun.

• spīnea
• spīneola
• spīnōsitās
• spīnōsulus

See also spīnus

• “spina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “spina”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• spina 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)
• spina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • subtleties of logic; dilemmas: disserendi spinae (Fin. 4. 28. 79)
    
  • minute, captious subdivisions and definitions: spinae partiendi et definiendi (Tusc. 5. 8. 22)
    
• “spina”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “spina”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “spina”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 580

spina

1. Alternative form of spyne

• IPA^(key): /ˈspi.na/

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• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: spi‧na

Deverbal from spinać się.

spina f

1. (slang) sudden jitters or anxiety

Back-formation from spinka.

spina f

1. (dated) Augmentative of spinka; fastener

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

spina

1. third-person singular present of spinać

Learned borrowing from Latin spīna, from Proto-Italic *speinā, from Proto-Indo-European *spey-neh₂, from the root *spey- (“sharp point”).

spina f

1. (obsolete) spine, vertebral column

   Synonym: kręgosłup

• → Belarusian: спі́на (spína)
• → Latvian: spina
• → Russian: спина́ (spiná)
• → Ukrainian: спи́на (spýna)

• spina in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• spina in Polish dictionaries at PWN