Etymology

spavined

spa·vined
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Today it means: Of a horse: having spavin (“a disease of horses caused by a bony swelling which develops in a leg due to inflammation”). Full definition →

Middle English spaueyned
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  1. Middle English · inherited fromspaueyned
  2. English todayspavined

From Late Middle English spaueyned, from spavein, spaveine (“swelling on horse’s leg causing lameness; disease causing lameness in horses”) + -ed (suffix forming adjectives; and the past tense and past participle forms of weak verbs). By surface analysis, spavin + -ed (suffix forming possessional adjectives from nouns, denoting having the objects represented by the nouns; and forming past tenses of regular verbs).

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