vertebra

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈvɜː.tɪb.ɹə/
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• General-American: /ˈvɝ.təb.ɹə/
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• General-American: /ˈvɝ.təˌbɹeɪ/
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• rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)tɪbɹə
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• CMU ARPABET: V ER1 T AH0 B R AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowing from Latin vertebra (“a joint”), from vertō (“to turn”) + -bra (instrumental nominal suffix). Having multiple vertebrae (plural of vertebra) in one's backbone instead of having a single bone or solid spine, allows for the movement of the body with bends and turns. Hence meaning 1.

86 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: werwel — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Arabic: فَقَرَة (faqara) — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Arabic: فقرة (faqara) — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Armenian: ող (oġ) — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Bashkir: умыртҡа (umırtqa) — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Belarusian: пазвано́к (pazvanók) — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Bulgarian: гръбначен прешлен (grǎbnačen prešlen) — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Burmese: ကျောရိုးဆစ် (kyau:rui:hcac) — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Burmese: ကျောရိုးဆစ်များ (kyau:rui:hcacmya:) — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Catalan: vèrtebra — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Cebuano: dugokan — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Chinese: 透龍骨 /透龙骨 (thàu-liông-kut) — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Chinese Mandarin: 椎骨 (zhuīgǔ) — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Chinese Mandarin: 脊椎 (jǐzhuī) — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Chinese Mandarin: 脊椎骨 (jǐzhuīgǔ) — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Czech: obratel — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Danish: ryghvirvel — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Dutch: wervel — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Dutch: rugwervel — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Dutch: ruggengraatswervel — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Egyptian: Tz:Z1 (ṯz) — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Evenki: сигдэ (sigdə) — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Evenki: нугды̄ (nugdī) — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Finnish: nikama — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Finnish: selkänikama — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• French: vertèbre — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Galician: vértebra — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Georgian: მალა (mala) — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Georgian: ხერხემალი (xerxemali) — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• German: Wirbel — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• German: Wirbelknochen — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Greek: σπόνδυλος (spóndylos) — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Ancient Greek: σφόνδυλος (sphóndulos) — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Hebrew: חֻלְיָה (ẖulyá) — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Hungarian: csigolya — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Ingrian: piiluu — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Ingrian: nikan — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Interlingua: vertebra — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Inupiaq: ikik — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Irish: veirteabra — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Italian: vertebra — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Japanese: 椎骨 (tsuikotsu) — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Korean: 척추 (cheokchu) — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Central Kurdish: بڕبڕە (birrbirre) — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Northern Kurdish: birrbirre — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Latin: vertebra — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Latvian: skriemelis — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Macedonian: пршлен (pršlen) — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Malayalam: കശേരു (kaśēru) — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Māori: tangai — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Mongolian: нугалам (nugalam) — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Mongolian: нурууны үе (nuruuny üje) — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Mongolian: нугалмай (nugalmaj) — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Mongolian: сээр (seer) — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Navajo: íígháán — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Norwegian: ryggvirvel — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Pannonian Rusyn: персцень (perscenʹ) — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Persian: مهره (mohre) — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Polish: kręg — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Portuguese: vértebra — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Romanian: vertebră — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Russian: позвоно́к (pozvonók) — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Scottish Gaelic: cnàimh an droma — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Scottish Gaelic: dromaltach — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Serbo-Croatian: пршљен — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Serbo-Croatian: кра́љежак — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Serbo-Croatian: кра́љешак — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Serbo-Croatian: pršljen — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Serbo-Croatian: králježak — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Serbo-Croatian: králješak — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Slovak: stavec — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Slovene: vretence — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Spanish: vértebra — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Swedish: ryggkota — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Swedish: kota — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Tagalog: gulugod — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Tamil: முள்ளெலும்பு (muḷḷelumpu) — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Turkish: omur — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Turkish: mühre — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Ottoman Turkish: فقره (fıkra) — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Ottoman Turkish: مهره (mühre) — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Ukrainian: хребе́ць (xrebécʹ) — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Walloon: cronzoxh — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Welsh: cefngymal — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Welsh: fertebra — any of the small bones making up the backbone
• Yakut: тоноҕос (tonoğos) — any of the small bones making up the backbone