backbone

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

substantive

P. and V. σφόνδυλος, ὁ.

spine: P. and V. ῥάχις, ἡ (Plato), σφόνδυλοι, οἱ (Plato), V. ἄκανθα, ἡ, νωτιαῖα ἄρθρα, τά.

of the backbone: P. and V. νωτιαῖος.

a farmer, one of those that are the backbone of the land: V. αὐτουργὸς, οἵπερ καὶ μόνοι σώζουσι γῆν (Euripides, Orestes 920).