espinha

espinha f (plural espinhas, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of espiña

• “espinha” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Inherited from Latin spīna (“thorn”).

• IPA^(key): /esˈpi.ɲa/

espinha f (plural espinhas)

1. thorn, stinger
2. (figurative) bite

• Galician: espiña
• Portuguese: espinha

• Universo Cantigas - "espinha"

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese espinha, from Latin spīna (“thorn”), from Proto-Italic *speinā, from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“sharp point”). Cognate with Galician espiña. The sense of "spine" or "thorn" was lost to espinho.

• Hyphenation: es‧pi‧nha

espinha f (plural espinhas)

1. backbone
2. fishbone
3. pimple

• (backbone): coluna, coluna vertebral, costas, espinha dorsal, espinhaço, dorso
• (acne): acne, erupção

• “espinha” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “espinha”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “espinha”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

espinha

1. inflection of espinhar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative