英语词汇spine的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	spine
词源	spine [ME] Spine is from Latin spina ‘thorn, prickle, backbone’. The word has been used to denote the back of a book from the 1920s. Spinney [L16th] is a shortening of Old French espinei, from an alteration of Latin spinetum ‘thicket’, from spina.
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