échine
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French eschine, from Frankish *skina, from Germanic. Compare German Schienbein (“tibia”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]échine f (plural échines)
- spinal column; backbone; spine of an animal
- 1924, Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain], volume 1 (overall work in German), Berlin: S. Fischer, page 577:
- Regarde les omoplates se remuer sous la peau soyeuse du dos, et l’échine qui descend vers la luxuriance double et fraîche des fesses, et les grandes branches des vases et des nerfs qui passent du tronc aux rameaux par les aisselles, et comme la structure des bras correspond à celle des jambes.
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Derived terms
[edit]Verb
[edit]échine
- inflection of échiner:
Further reading
[edit]- “échine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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