Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

spinose

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.26 in modern English

Syllables: spinose
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having a spine, or spines

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *spey-der. Proto-Italic *speinā Latin spīna Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.? Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos? Old Latin -ōssus Latin -ōsus Latin spinōsusbor. English spinose Borrowed from Latin spinōsus.

Inflected Forms

more spinose (comparative) most spinose (superlative)

Derived Forms

aspinose bispinose nonspinose spinosely spinoseness spinosity trispinose unispinose

Questions

What does spinose mean?: Having a spine, or spines
Where does spinose come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *spey-der. Proto-Italic *speinā Latin spīna Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.? Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos? Old Latin -ōssus Latin -ōsus Latin spinōsusbor. English spinose Borrowed from Latin spinōsus.

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