vertebra
English edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈvɜː.tɪb.ɹə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈvɝ.təb.ɹə/, /ˈvɝ.təˌbɹeɪ/
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- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tɪbɹə
Noun edit
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.
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References edit
- “vertebra”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “vertebra”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Esperanto edit
Adjective edit
vertebra (accusative singular vertebran, plural vertebraj, accusative plural vertebrajn)
Antonyms edit
- malvertebra (“invertebrate”)
Hypernyms edit
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- vertebro (“a vertebrate”)
Interlingua edit
Noun edit
vertebra (plural vertebras)
Italian edit
Etymology edit
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Noun edit
vertebra f (plural vertebre)
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Further reading edit
- vertebra in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈu̯er.te.bra/, [ˈu̯ɛrt̪ɛbrä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈver.te.bra/, [ˈvɛrt̪ebrä]
Etymology 1 edit
From vertō (“to turn”) + -bra (instrumental nominal suffix). Doublet of vertebrum.
Noun edit
vertebra f (genitive vertebrae); first declension
Inflection edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | vertebra | vertebrae |
Genitive | vertebrae | vertebrārum |
Dative | vertebrae | vertebrīs |
Accusative | vertebram | vertebrās |
Ablative | vertebrā | vertebrīs |
Vocative | vertebra | vertebrae |
Derived terms edit
- vertebrālis (adjective)
- vertebrātus (adjective)
Descendants edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun edit
vertebra n
References edit
- “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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Noun edit
vertebra f (genitive singular vertebra, plural vertebraghyn)
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- vertebragh (“vertebrate, vertebral”)
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Verb edit
vertebra
- inflection of vertebrar: