spinula

Borrowed from Latin spīnula.

spinula (plural spinulae)

1. Alternative form of spinule.

• Lupians, paulins

From spīna + -ula (forming diminutives).

spīnula f (genitive spīnulae); first declension (Late Latin)

1. diminutive of spīna (“thorn”)

First-declension noun.

• spīnulōsus (New Latin)

• Vulgar Latin: *spinla
  • Italian: spilla
  • Sicilian: spiḍḍa
• → English: spinule
• → French: spinule
• → Italian: spinula
• → Portuguese: espínula
• → Spanish: espínula

• “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.