The story
- Latin · derived fromspira“a coil”
- English todayspirifer
Words from the same roots
Latinspira all →
spiralspirospiriclespirillumspiritrompespirula
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
spirifer
Today it means: Any of numerous species of fossil brachiopods of the genera †Spirifer and †Delthyris and allied genera in order †Spiriferida, in which the long calcareous supports of the arms form a large spiral, or helix, on each side. Full definition →
Latin spira