spinula

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin spīnula. === Noun === spinula (plural spinulae) Alternative form of spinule. === Anagrams === Lupians, paulins == Latin == === Etymology === From spīna + -ula (forming diminutives). === Noun === spīnula f (genitive spīnulae); first declension (Late Latin) diminutive of spīna (“thorn”) ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== spīnulōsus (New Latin) ==== Descendants ==== Vulgar Latin: *spinla Italian: spilla Sicilian: spiḍḍa → English: spinule → French: spinule → Italian: spinula → Portuguese: espínula → Spanish: espínula === References === “spinula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "spinula", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “spinula”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.