spondyle

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin spondylus, from Ancient Greek σφόνδῠλος (sphóndulos, “vertebra”).

Noun

spondyle (plural spondyles)

  1. (anatomy) A joint of the backbone; a vertebra.

Translations
joint of the backbone — see vertebra

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for spondyle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Latin

Noun

spondyle

  1. 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
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