The corpus record — Latin

vertebra

vertebra · f

a joint

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Where it lives

De Medicina 11 · 1.07/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Controversiae 1 · 0.15/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

vertē^bra — Lewis & Short

vertē^bra, ae, f.verto,

I a joint.

I In gen., Cels. 8, 1, Plin. 11, 46, 106, § 255; Sen. Ep. 78, 8.—Of insects, Plin. 11, 1, 1, § 1.—

II In partic., a joint, vertebra of the spine, Cels. 8, 1.—

III In late Lat. collat. form vertē^brum, i, n., = i)sxi/on, the hip-bone, Cael. Aur Acut. 1, 10, 71 al.

In the wild

6 of 15 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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