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vertebra

See also: vértebra, vertebrá, and vèrtebra

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Vertebra

Etymology

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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.

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

  1. (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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Adjective

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

  1. vertebrate

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Interlingua

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Noun

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vertebra (plural vertebras)

  1. vertebra

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Etymology

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From Latin vertebra.

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Noun

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vertebra f (plural vertebre)

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

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

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vertebra f (genitive vertebrae); first declension

  1. a joint
  2. (anatomy) a joint, vertebra of the spine
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First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative vertebra vertebrae
Genitive vertebrae vertebrārum
Dative vertebrae vertebrīs
Accusative vertebram vertebrās
Ablative vertebrā vertebrīs
Vocative vertebra vertebrae
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Descendants
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Descendants of vertebra

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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vertebra n

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of vertebrum

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  • “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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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin vertebra.

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vertebra f (genitive singular vertebra, plural vertebraghyn)

  1. (anatomy) vertebra

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Verb

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vertebra

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