spina
- noun
- /ˈspaɪnə/
- Specialized
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spina
- It would have run down the center of the spina block, as can be seen on accurate maps like the plan by Giovanni Battista Nolli (Fig. 3).
- spina bifida
Examples
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With the spina cleared, the breadth of the space opened between the Borgo Nuovo and the Borgo Vecchio proved immense.
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Not until the demolition of the spina had the dome ever been satisfactorily seen from the front.
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Only a few structures in the spina nearest the church were cleared at this time.
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With the possibilities of demolishing the spina limited, Bernini then developed the piazza at St. Peter's within these spatial and financial constraints.
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A drawing attributed in the late nineteenth century to Bernini proposed an alternative location for the terzo braccio pulled back into the spina (Fig. 6).
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Thus, a long, westward axial approach could have been realized economically by simply extracting the spina; however, during Sixtus V's short reign, no demolition was accomplished.
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His first project entailed the demolition of more of the spina and the setting of Bernini's terzo braccio at the end of a deep trapezoidal forecourt.
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As full clearance became more and more unlikely, he then sought to mask the irregular spina structures standing nearby with a so-called terzo braccio, a third freestanding range of columns.
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It was, however, one of the simultaneous urban projects underway at the time, and even after Mussolini's famous fall of the pickax and the swift demolition of the spina, the realization of the Via della Conciliazione was never guaranteed.
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In the Roman circus, the chariots raced around the long decorative divider known as the spina.
Compounds
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A birth problem where the spine does not close and the spinal cord may stick out
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A thorny shrub from Europe and Asia with dry woody fruits that have flat wings
Surface Forms
Etymology
Spina was also the name for the long central barrier in Roman race tracks because it ran down the middle like a 'spine' or 'backbone'. That's why the word refers to the divider that chariots raced around and why historians still use the same name today.