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vertebra
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English
Etymology
Borrowing from Latin vertebra (“a joint”), from vertō (“to turn”) + -bra (instrumental nominal suffix). Having multiple vertebrae (plural of vertebra) in one's backbone instead of having a single bone or solid spine, allows for the movement of the body with bends and turns. Hence meaning 1.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈvɜː.tɪb.ɹə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈvɝ.təb.ɹə/, /ˈvɝ.təˌbɹeɪ/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tɪbɹə
Noun
vertebra (plural vertebrae or (obsolete) vertebræ or vertebras)
- (anatomy) Any of the bony or cartilaginous segments which make up the backbone, consisting in some lower vertebrates of several distinct elements which never become united, and in higher vertebrates having a short more or less cylindrical body whose ends articulate by pads of elastic or cartilaginous tissue with those of adjacent vertebrae and a bony arch that encloses the spinal cord.
- Synonym: (rare) spondyle
- Hyponym: anticlinal vertebra
- Meronyms: see Thesaurus:vertebra
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
- Already I seemed to hear the water rippling against the desiccated bones and rattling them together, rolling my skull against Mahomed's, and his against mine, till at last Mahomed's stood straight up upon its vertebræ, and glared at me through its empty eyeholes, and cursed me with its grinning jaws, because I, a dog of a Christian, disturbed the last sleep of a true believer.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
any of the small bones making up the backbone
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See also
References
- “vertebra”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “vertebra”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
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Esperanto
Pronunciation
Adjective
vertebra (accusative singular vertebran, plural vertebraj, accusative plural vertebrajn)
Antonyms
- malvertebra (“invertebrate”)
Hypernyms
- ĥordohava, ĥordula (“chordate”)
Related terms
- vertebro (“a vertebrate”)
Indonesian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin vertebra (“a joint, vertebra of the spine”).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /vɛrˈtebra/ [fɛrˈt̪e.bra]
- Rhymes: -ebra
- Syllabification: ver‧te‧bra
Noun
vertebra (plural vertebra-vertebra)
- (anatomy) backbone, spinal column, spine, vertebral column
- Synonyms: tulang belakang, tulang punggung, spina
- (anatomy) vertebra
Further reading
- “vertebra” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Interlingua
Noun
vertebra (plural vertebras)
Italian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
vertebra f (plural vertebre)
Related terms
Further reading
- vertebra in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈwɛr.tɛ.bra]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈvɛr.t̪e.bra]
Etymology 1
From vertō (“to turn”) + -bra (instrumental nominal suffix). Doublet of vertebrum.
Noun
vertebra f (genitive vertebrae); first declension
Inflection
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
- vertebrālis (adjective)
- vertebrātus (adjective)
Descendants
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
vertebra n
References
- “vertebra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vertebra”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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Spanish
Verb
vertebra
- inflection of vertebrar:
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