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- Latin · borrowed frommultifidus
- English todaymultifidus
From Latin multifidus. Doublet of multifid and multifidous.
Words from the same roots
Latinmultifidus all →
multifid
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
multifidus
Today it means: 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. Full definition →
Latin multifidus