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Latin
Etymology
From spīna (“a prickle, spine”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).
Pronunciation
Adjective
spīnālis (neuter spīnāle); third-declension two-termination adjective
- (Late Latin) of or belonging to the spine; spinal
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Inflection
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Descendants
References
- “spinalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- spinalis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.