English
lamina
Lamina comes from Latin lāmina ‘a thin piece of metal, wood, marble’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElāmina‘a thin piece of metal, wood, marble’
- Englishtodaylamina
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElāmina‘a thin piece of metal, wood, marble’
- Englishtodaylamina
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *stelh₃- ‘broad, to broaden’
through Latin lāmina ‘a thin piece of metal, wood, marble’
Today it means
noun Either of two broad, flat plates of bone of a vertebra that is fused with and extends from the pedicle to the median line of the neural arch to form the base of the spinous process and that along with the pedicle forms the posterior part of the vertebral foramen.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin lāmina / lamina