"spinula" meaning in Latin

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Noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *spey-der. Proto-Italic *speinā Latin spīna Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -ula Latin spīnula From spīna + -ula (forming diminutives). Etymology templates: {{ety|la|:af|spīna|-ulus<alt:-ula><pos:forming diminutives>|text=+|title=spīnula|tree=1}} Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *spey-der. Proto-Italic *speinā Latin spīna Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -ula Latin spīnula [Appendix:Glossary#derived_terms|Derived]] from", "terms" : [ { "id" : "sharp", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*spey-", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*speinā", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "spīna", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "la" }, { "alt" : "-ula", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "diminutive", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "alt" : "*-elós", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "status" : "inline", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "agent nouns", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-lós", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*-elos", "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "-ulus", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "la", "pos" : "forming diminutives" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "spīnula", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "la" }" data-lang="la" data-title="spīnula"> From spīna + -ula (forming diminutives). Head templates: {{la-noun|spīnula<1>}} spīnula f (genitive spīnulae); first declension, {{tlb|la|LL.}} (Late Latin) Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|spīnula<1>}} Forms: spīnula [canonical, feminine], spīnulae [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], spīnula [nominative, singular], spīnulae [nominative, plural], spīnulae [genitive, singular], spīnulārum [genitive, plural], spīnulae [dative, singular], spīnulīs [dative, plural], spīnulam [accusative, singular], spīnulās [accusative, plural], spīnulā [ablative, singular], spīnulīs [ablative, plural], spīnula [singular, vocative], spīnulae [plural, vocative]
  1. diminutive of spīna (“thorn”) Tags: Late-Latin, declension-1, diminutive, form-of Form of: spīna (extra: thorn) Derived forms: spīnulōsus [New-Latin]
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}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Latin dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-06-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-06-01 using wiktextract (ade7ec3 and 7f4db16). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.