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Latin
Etymology
spīna (“thorn”) + -ētum (“grove”)
Pronunciation
Noun
spīnētum n (genitive spīnētī); second declension
- a thorn hedge, a thicket of thorns
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Descendants
References
- “spinetum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “spinetum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- spinetum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.