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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

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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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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈspiːna/

spina f (genitive singular spinu, uncountable)

1. sperm

Declension of spina (singular only)
f1s	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	spina	spinan
accusative	spinu	spinuna
dative	spinu	spinuni
genitive	spinu	spinunnar

• sáð
• spin

• nispa
• pinsa
• pisan

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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

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From Proto-Italic *speinā, from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“sharp point”). Cognates include Latvian spina and Russian спина (spina).

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

spīna f (genitive spīnae); first declension

1. (literal) 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) thorns, difficulties, subtleties, perplexities in speaking and debating
   2. cares
   3. errors

First-declension noun.

• spīnea
• spīneola
• spīnōsitās
• spīnōsulus

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• → Albanian: shpinë
• → Asturian: espina
• → Catalan: espina
• Dalmatian: spaina
• → English: spine
• → French: épine
• → Friulian: spine
• → Galician: espiña
• → Italian: spina
• → Occitan: espina
• → Portuguese: espinha
• → Romansch: spina, spegna
• → Sardinian: ispina, spina
• → Sicilian: spina
• → Spanish: espina
• → Venetan: spina

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• “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^[1], 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

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spina

1. Alternative form of spyne

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From spinać.

spina f

1. (slang) sudden jitters or anxiety
2. (dated) Augmentative of spinka; fastener

spina

1. third-person singular present of spinać

Borrowed from Latin spīna.

spina f

1. (obsolete) spine, vertebral column

   Synonym: kręgosłup

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

• spina in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
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