"spina" meaning in Latin

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Noun

IPA: /ˈspiː.na/ [Classical], [ˈs̠piːnä] [Classical], /ˈspi.na/ (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical), [ˈspiːnä] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From Proto-Italic *speinā, from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“sharp point”). Etymology templates: {{inh|la|itc-pro|*speinā}} Proto-Italic *speinā, {{der|la|ine-pro|*spey-||sharp point}} Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“sharp point”) Head templates: {{la-noun|spīna<1>}} spīna f (genitive spīnae); first declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|spīna<1>}} Forms: spīna [canonical, feminine], spīnae [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], spīna [nominative, singular], spīnae [nominative, plural], spīnae [genitive, singular], spīnārum [genitive, plural], spīnae [dative, singular], spīnīs [dative, plural], spīnam [accusative, singular], spīnās [accusative, plural], spīnā [ablative, singular], spīnīs [ablative, plural], spīna [singular, vocative], spīnae [plural, vocative]
  1. (literal) a thorn or a thorny tree or shrub, such as whitethorn, hawthorn, or blackthorn Tags: declension-1
    Sense id: en-spina-la-noun-jG9n3Czn Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 16 17 20 8 3 4 25 4 4
  2. (transferred sense)
    (zootomy) a thorn, spine, prickle
    Tags: declension-1 Categories (lifeform): Animal body parts
    Sense id: en-spina-la-noun-UAtu2C0d Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 16 17 20 8 3 4 25 4 4 Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology, zootomy
  3. (transferred sense)
    (zootomy) a fishbone
    Tags: declension-1 Categories (lifeform): Animal body parts
    Sense id: en-spina-la-noun-qMomtcRQ Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 16 17 20 8 3 4 25 4 4 Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology, zootomy
  4. (transferred sense)
    (anatomy) the backbone, spine
    Tags: declension-1 Categories (topical): Skeleton
    Sense id: en-spina-la-noun-5P69ZInn Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
  5. (transferred sense)
    a low wall along the centre of a circus (racecourse); a barrier
    Tags: declension-1
    Sense id: en-spina-la-noun-SG96U9Fp
  6. (transferred sense)
    a toothpick
    Tags: declension-1
    Sense id: en-spina-la-noun-5XO8-MWN
  7. (figurative, in the plural)
    (Classical Latin, Medieval Latin) thorns, difficulties, subtleties, perplexities in speaking and debating
    Tags: Classical-Latin, Medieval-Latin, declension-1, figuratively, in-plural
    Sense id: en-spina-la-noun-Yvsjjxj7 Categories (other): Classical Latin, Medieval Latin, Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin feminine nouns in the first declension Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 16 17 20 8 3 4 25 4 4 Disambiguation of Latin feminine nouns in the first declension: 10 8 9 10 10 11 22 10 10
  8. (figurative, in the plural)
    cares
    Tags: declension-1, figuratively, in-plural
    Sense id: en-spina-la-noun--ptvvpmX
  9. (figurative, in the plural)
    errors
    Tags: declension-1, figuratively, in-plural
    Sense id: en-spina-la-noun-vkvVZ3J3
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: spīneus, spīnifer, spīniger, Spīniēnsis, spīnula, spīnus, spīnālis, spīnēscō, spīnētum, spīnōsus Related terms: spīnea, spīneola, spīnōsitās, spīnōsulus

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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
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      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Dalmatian:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
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      "text": "spaina"
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      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Italo-Romance:"
    },
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      "depth": 2,
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          "expansion": "Italian: spina",
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      "templates": [],
      "text": "Padanian:"
    },
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          "name": "desc"
        }
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      "text": "Romansch: spina, spegna"
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      "depth": 2,
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      "depth": 1,
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      "text": "Northern Gallo-Romance:"
    },
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          "expansion": "Old French: espine",
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          "name": "desc"
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      "text": "French: épine"
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    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Southern Gallo-Romance:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ca",
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          "expansion": "Catalan: espina",
          "name": "desc"
        }
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    },
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      "depth": 2,
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          "name": "desc"
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      "text": "Occitan: espina"
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      "templates": [],
      "text": "Ibero-Romance:"
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      "depth": 2,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ast",
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          "expansion": "Asturian: espina",
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      "text": "Spanish: espina"
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      "text": "Insular Romance:"
    },
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      "depth": 2,
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          "args": {
            "1": "sc",
            "2": "-"
          },
          "expansion": "Sardinian:",
          "name": "desc"
        }
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      "text": "Sardinian:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sc-sro",
            "2": "spina"
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          "name": "desc"
        }
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      "text": "Campidanese: spina"
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            "1": "sc-src",
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          "name": "desc"
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      ],
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      "text": "Ancient borrowings:"
    },
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            "1": "sq",
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          "expansion": "→ Albanian: shpinë",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Albanian: shpinë"
    },
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      "depth": 2,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "mga",
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            "bor": "1"
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          "expansion": "→ Middle Irish: spín",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Middle Irish: spín"
    },
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      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ga",
            "2": "spíon"
          },
          "expansion": "Irish: spíon",
          "name": "desc"
        }
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      "text": "Irish: spíon"
    },
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      "depth": 3,
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        {
          "args": {
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            "2": "spìon"
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          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Scottish Gaelic: spìon"
    },
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      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Learned borrowings:"
    },
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      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "spine",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: spine",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: spine"
    },
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      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pl",
            "2": "spina",
            "bor": "1",
            "id": "latinateback"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Polish: spina",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "see desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Polish: spina (see there for further descendants)"
    }
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      "name": "inh"
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      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Italic *speinā, from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“sharp point”).",
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      "form": "spīna",
      "head_nr": 1,
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "feminine"
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    },
    {
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      "head_nr": 1,
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        "genitive"
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        "table-tags"
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        "inflection-template"
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        "nominative",
        "singular"
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      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spīnae",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spīnārum",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spīnae",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "spīnīs",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spīnam",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
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      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spīnā",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spīnīs",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spīna",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spīnae",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "spīnea"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "spīneola"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "spīnōsitās"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "spīnōsulus"
    }
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    {
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        {
          "_dis": "16 17 20 8 3 4 25 4 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
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        "a thorn or a thorny tree or shrub, such as whitethorn, hawthorn, or blackthorn"
      ],
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        ],
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        ],
        [
          "shrub",
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        "declension-1"
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      ],
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        "a thorn, spine, prickle"
      ],
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      "id": "en-spina-la-noun-UAtu2C0d",
      "links": [
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          "zootomy",
          "zootomy"
        ],
        [
          "thorn",
          "thorn"
        ],
        [
          "spine",
          "spine"
        ],
        [
          "prickle",
          "prickle"
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      ],
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        "(transferred sense)",
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      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1"
      ],
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        "biology",
        "natural-sciences",
        "zoology",
        "zootomy"
      ]
    },
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          "langcode": "la",
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            "Animals",
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            "Anatomy",
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            "Nature"
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      "glosses": [
        "a fishbone"
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          "zootomy",
          "zootomy"
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          "fishbone",
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      ],
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        "(transferred sense)",
        "(zootomy) a fishbone"
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        "declension-1"
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        "biology",
        "natural-sciences",
        "zoology",
        "zootomy"
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    },
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        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "Skeleton",
          "orig": "la:Skeleton",
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            "Body parts",
            "Body",
            "Anatomy",
            "Human",
            "Biology",
            "Medicine",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "the backbone, spine"
      ],
      "head_nr": 1,
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        [
          "anatomy",
          "anatomy"
        ],
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          "backbone",
          "backbone"
        ],
        [
          "spine",
          "spine"
        ]
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transferred sense)",
        "(anatomy) the backbone, spine"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "anatomy",
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "a low wall along the centre of a circus (racecourse); a barrier"
      ],
      "head_nr": 1,
      "id": "en-spina-la-noun-SG96U9Fp",
      "links": [
        [
          "wall",
          "wall"
        ],
        [
          "circus",
          "circus"
        ],
        [
          "racecourse",
          "racecourse#English"
        ],
        [
          "barrier",
          "barrier"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "transferred sense",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transferred sense)",
        "a low wall along the centre of a circus (racecourse); a barrier"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "a toothpick"
      ],
      "head_nr": 1,
      "id": "en-spina-la-noun-5XO8-MWN",
      "links": [
        [
          "toothpick",
          "toothpick"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "transferred sense",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transferred sense)",
        "a toothpick"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Classical Latin",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Medieval Latin",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "16 17 20 8 3 4 25 4 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "10 8 9 10 10 11 22 10 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin feminine nouns in the first declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.15.19",
          "text": "Iter pigrōrum quasi sēpēs spīnārum; via iūstōrum absque offendiculō.\nThe way of the slothful is as a hedge of thorns; the way of the just is without offence.\n(Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.: 1752 CE)"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "thorns, difficulties, subtleties, perplexities in speaking and debating"
      ],
      "head_nr": 1,
      "id": "en-spina-la-noun-Yvsjjxj7",
      "links": [
        [
          "thorns",
          "thorns"
        ],
        [
          "difficulties",
          "difficulties"
        ],
        [
          "subtleties",
          "subtleties"
        ],
        [
          "perplexities",
          "perplexities"
        ],
        [
          "speaking",
          "speaking"
        ],
        [
          "debating",
          "debating"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative, in the plural)",
        "(Classical Latin, Medieval Latin) thorns, difficulties, subtleties, perplexities in speaking and debating"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin",
        "Medieval-Latin",
        "declension-1",
        "figuratively",
        "in-plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "cares"
      ],
      "head_nr": 1,
      "id": "en-spina-la-noun--ptvvpmX",
      "links": [
        [
          "cares",
          "cares"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative, in the plural)",
        "cares"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1",
        "figuratively",
        "in-plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "errors"
      ],
      "head_nr": 1,
      "id": "en-spina-la-noun-vkvVZ3J3",
      "links": [
        [
          "errors",
          "errors"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative, in the plural)",
        "errors"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1",
        "figuratively",
        "in-plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈspiː.na/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈs̠piːnä]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈspi.na/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈspiːnä]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "spina"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Latin 2-syllable words",
    "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
    "Latin feminine nouns",
    "Latin feminine nouns in the first declension",
    "Latin first declension nouns",
    "Latin lemmas",
    "Latin nouns",
    "Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic",
    "Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic",
    "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Requests for quotations in Latin",
    "pl:Emotions",
    "pl:Fasteners",
    "pl:Skeleton"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "spīneus"
    },
    {
      "word": "spīnifer"
    },
    {
      "word": "spīniger"
    },
    {
      "word": "Spīniēnsis"
    },
    {
      "word": "spīnula"
    },
    {
      "word": "spīnus"
    },
    {
      "word": "spīnālis"
    },
    {
      "word": "spīnēscō"
    },
    {
      "word": "spīnētum"
    },
    {
      "word": "spīnōsus"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Dalmatian:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "dlm",
            "2": "spaina",
            "nolb": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "spaina",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "spaina"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Italo-Romance:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "spina"
          },
          "expansion": "Italian: spina",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Italian: spina"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "nap",
            "2": "spina"
          },
          "expansion": "Neapolitan: spina",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Neapolitan: spina"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "scn",
            "2": "spina"
          },
          "expansion": "Sicilian: spina",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Sicilian: spina"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Padanian:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fur",
            "2": "spine"
          },
          "expansion": "Friulian: spine",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Friulian: spine"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "rm",
            "2": "spina",
            "3": "spegna"
          },
          "expansion": "Romansch: spina, spegna",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Romansch: spina, spegna"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vec",
            "2": "spina"
          },
          "expansion": "Venetian: spina",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Venetian: spina"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Northern Gallo-Romance:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fro",
            "2": "espine"
          },
          "expansion": "Old French: espine",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old French: espine"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fr",
            "2": "épine"
          },
          "expansion": "French: épine",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "French: épine"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Southern Gallo-Romance:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ca",
            "2": "espina"
          },
          "expansion": "Catalan: espina",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Catalan: espina"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "oc",
            "2": "espina"
          },
          "expansion": "Occitan: espina",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Occitan: espina"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Ibero-Romance:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ast",
            "2": "espina"
          },
          "expansion": "Asturian: espina",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Asturian: espina"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "roa-opt",
            "2": "espinha"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Galician-Portuguese: espinha\nGalician: espiña\nPortuguese: espinha",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Galician-Portuguese: espinha\nGalician: espiña\nPortuguese: espinha"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "espina"
          },
          "expansion": "Spanish: espina",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Spanish: espina"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Insular Romance:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sc",
            "2": "-"
          },
          "expansion": "Sardinian:",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Sardinian:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sc-sro",
            "2": "spina"
          },
          "expansion": "Campidanese: spina",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Campidanese: spina"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sc-src",
            "2": "ispina"
          },
          "expansion": "Logudorese: ispina",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Logudorese: ispina"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Ancient borrowings:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sq",
            "2": "shpinë",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Albanian: shpinë",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Albanian: shpinë"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "mga",
            "2": "spín",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Middle Irish: spín",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Middle Irish: spín"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ga",
            "2": "spíon"
          },
          "expansion": "Irish: spíon",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Irish: spíon"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gd",
            "2": "spìon"
          },
          "expansion": "Scottish Gaelic: spìon",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Scottish Gaelic: spìon"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Learned borrowings:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "spine",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: spine",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: spine"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pl",
            "2": "spina",
            "bor": "1",
            "id": "latinateback"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Polish: spina",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "see desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Polish: spina (see there for further descendants)"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "itc-pro",
        "3": "*speinā"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Italic *speinā",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*spey-",
        "4": "",
        "5": "sharp point"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“sharp point”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Italic *speinā, from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“sharp point”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spīna",
      "head_nr": 1,
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spīnae",
      "head_nr": 1,
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spīna",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spīnae",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spīnae",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spīnārum",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spīnae",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spīnīs",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spīnam",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spīnās",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spīnā",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spīnīs",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spīna",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spīnae",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "spīna<1>"
      },
      "expansion": "spīna f (genitive spīnae); first declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "spīna<1>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "spīnea"
    },
    {
      "word": "spīneola"
    },
    {
      "word": "spīnōsitās"
    },
    {
      "word": "spīnōsulus"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "a thorn or a thorny tree or shrub, such as whitethorn, hawthorn, or blackthorn"
      ],
      "head_nr": 1,
      "links": [
        [
          "thorn",
          "thorn"
        ],
        [
          "thorny",
          "thorny"
        ],
        [
          "tree",
          "tree"
        ],
        [
          "shrub",
          "shrub"
        ],
        [
          "whitethorn",
          "whitethorn"
        ],
        [
          "hawthorn",
          "hawthorn"
        ],
        [
          "blackthorn",
          "blackthorn"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "literal",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(literal) a thorn or a thorny tree or shrub, such as whitethorn, hawthorn, or blackthorn"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin terms with transferred senses",
        "la:Animal body parts"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a thorn, spine, prickle"
      ],
      "head_nr": 1,
      "links": [
        [
          "zootomy",
          "zootomy"
        ],
        [
          "thorn",
          "thorn"
        ],
        [
          "spine",
          "spine"
        ],
        [
          "prickle",
          "prickle"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "transferred sense",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transferred sense)",
        "(zootomy) a thorn, spine, prickle"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "natural-sciences",
        "zoology",
        "zootomy"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin terms with transferred senses",
        "la:Animal body parts"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a fishbone"
      ],
      "head_nr": 1,
      "links": [
        [
          "zootomy",
          "zootomy"
        ],
        [
          "fishbone",
          "fishbone"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "transferred sense",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transferred sense)",
        "(zootomy) a fishbone"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "natural-sciences",
        "zoology",
        "zootomy"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin terms with transferred senses",
        "la:Skeleton"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "the backbone, spine"
      ],
      "head_nr": 1,
      "links": [
        [
          "anatomy",
          "anatomy"
        ],
        [
          "backbone",
          "backbone"
        ],
        [
          "spine",
          "spine"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "transferred sense",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transferred sense)",
        "(anatomy) the backbone, spine"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "anatomy",
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin terms with transferred senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a low wall along the centre of a circus (racecourse); a barrier"
      ],
      "head_nr": 1,
      "links": [
        [
          "wall",
          "wall"
        ],
        [
          "circus",
          "circus"
        ],
        [
          "racecourse",
          "racecourse#English"
        ],
        [
          "barrier",
          "barrier"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "transferred sense",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transferred sense)",
        "a low wall along the centre of a circus (racecourse); a barrier"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin terms with transferred senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a toothpick"
      ],
      "head_nr": 1,
      "links": [
        [
          "toothpick",
          "toothpick"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "transferred sense",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transferred sense)",
        "a toothpick"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Classical Latin",
        "Latin terms with quotations",
        "Medieval Latin"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.15.19",
          "text": "Iter pigrōrum quasi sēpēs spīnārum; via iūstōrum absque offendiculō.\nThe way of the slothful is as a hedge of thorns; the way of the just is without offence.\n(Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.: 1752 CE)"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "thorns, difficulties, subtleties, perplexities in speaking and debating"
      ],
      "head_nr": 1,
      "links": [
        [
          "thorns",
          "thorns"
        ],
        [
          "difficulties",
          "difficulties"
        ],
        [
          "subtleties",
          "subtleties"
        ],
        [
          "perplexities",
          "perplexities"
        ],
        [
          "speaking",
          "speaking"
        ],
        [
          "debating",
          "debating"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative, in the plural)",
        "(Classical Latin, Medieval Latin) thorns, difficulties, subtleties, perplexities in speaking and debating"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin",
        "Medieval-Latin",
        "declension-1",
        "figuratively",
        "in-plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "cares"
      ],
      "head_nr": 1,
      "links": [
        [
          "cares",
          "cares"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative, in the plural)",
        "cares"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1",
        "figuratively",
        "in-plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "errors"
      ],
      "head_nr": 1,
      "links": [
        [
          "errors",
          "errors"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative, in the plural)",
        "errors"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1",
        "figuratively",
        "in-plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈspiː.na/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈs̠piːnä]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈspi.na/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈspiːnä]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "spina"
}
{
  "called_from": "page/1713/20221215",
  "msg": "later head without list of senses,template node #, spina/Latin",
  "path": [
    "spina"
  ],
  "section": "Latin",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "spina",
  "trace": ""
}

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