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vertebra

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See also: vértebra, vertebrá, and vèrtebra

English

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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

Noun

vertebra (plural vertebrae or (obsolete) vertebræ or vertebras)

  2. (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.

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /verˈtebra/
  • Rhymes: -ebra
  • Hyphenation: ver‧te‧bra

Adjective

vertebra (accusative singular vertebran, plural vertebraj, accusative plural vertebrajn)

  1. vertebrate

Antonyms

  • malvertebra (“invertebrate”)

Hypernyms

Indonesian

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vertebra (“a joint, vertebra of the spine”).

Pronunciation

Noun

vertebra (plural vertebra-vertebra)

  1. (anatomy) backbone, spinal column, spine, vertebral column
    Synonyms: tulang belakang, tulang punggung, spina
  3. (anatomy) vertebra

Further reading

Interlingua

Noun

vertebra (plural vertebras)

  1. vertebra

Italian

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Etymology

From Latin vertebra.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvɛr.te.bra/
  • Rhymes: -ɛrtebra
  • Hyphenation: vèr‧te‧bra

Noun

vertebra f (plural vertebre)

  1. (anatomy) vertebra

Further reading

  • vertebra in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Latin

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From vertō (“to turn”) +‎ -bra (instrumental nominal suffix). Doublet of vertebrum.

Noun

vertebra f (genitive vertebrae); first declension

  1. a joint
  2. (anatomy) a joint, vertebra of the spine
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Inflection

First-declension noun.

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Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

vertebra n

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of vertebrum

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

  1. inflection of vertebrar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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