different between spinule vs paxillus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin spinula, diminutive of Latin spina (“a spine”). Compare French spinule.

Noun

spinule (plural spinules)

1. A minute spine.
   • c. 1852, James Dwight Dana, Crustacaea

     Alongside of the pairs, there is often another smaller spinule, on one side or both, sometimes a second; and rarely, there are scattered spinules upon the surface between

Anagrams

• Lupiens, line ups, line-ups, lines up, lineups, lupines, pinules, unpiles, up lines, up-lines, uplines

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?spinule]

Noun

spinule m

1. vocative singular of spin

English

Etymology

From Latin paxillus (“peg”)

Noun

paxillus (plural paxilli)

1. (zoology) A kind of pillar-like spine with a flattened summit covered with minute spinules or granules, covering the surface of certain starfishes.

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive noun of p?lus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pa?k?sil.lus/, [pä?k?s??l???s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pak?sil.lus/, [p?k?sil?us]

Noun

p?xillus m (genitive p?xill?); second declension

1. peg, pin, small stake

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

• Bourguignon: paisseâ

References

• paxillus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• paxillus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• paxillus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette