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English
Etymology
From Middle English spondile, spondyle, from Latin spondylus, from Ancient Greek σφόνδῠλος (sphóndulos, “vertebra”).
Noun
spondyle (plural spondyles)
- (archaic, anatomy) A joint of the backbone; a vertebra.
Translations
References
French
Etymology
From Latin spondylus (“vertebra; mussel”).
Pronunciation
Noun
spondyle f (plural spondyles)
- spiny oyster, thorny oyster (mollusc of the genus Spondylus)
- spondyle (vertebra)
Further reading
Latin
Noun
spondyle
- vocative singular of spondylus
References
- “spondyle”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- spondyle in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.