The story
- Latin · derived fromspira“a coil”
- English todayspirula
Diminutive of Latin spira (“a coil”)
Words from the same roots
Latinspira all →
spiralspirospiriclespiriferspirillumspiritrompe
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
spirula
Today it means: Any mollusk of the cephalopod genus Spirula, of which Spirula spirula is the only extant species. Full definition →
Latin spira