spondyle

English

Alternative forms

• spondyl

Etymology

From Latin spondylus, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Latin

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 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.