multifidus

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multifidus (plural multifidi)

1. (anatomy) A thin muscle consisting of a number of fleshy and tendinous fasciculi that fill up the groove on either side of the spinous processes of the vertebrae, from the sacrum to the axis.

From multi- (“many”) +‎ -fidus, from findere (“to split”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /mulˈti.fi.dus/, [mʊɫ̪ˈt̪ɪfɪd̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mulˈti.fi.dus/, [mul̪ˈt̪iːfid̪us]

multifidus (feminine multifida, neuter multifidum); first/second-declension adjective

1. multifid, split into many parts

   multifidī crīnēs ― hair parted into many locks

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• bifidus, trifidus, quadrifidus, quinquifidus, centifidus

• Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
• Romanian: multifid

• “multifidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “multifidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• multifidus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette