spavin

Bedeutung (Englisch)

Noun

1. (countable) A bony swelling which develops in a horse's leg where the shank and splint bone meet, caused by inflammation of the cartilage connecting those bones; also, a similar swelling caused by inflammation of the hock bones.
2. (uncountable) A disease of horses caused by this bony swelling (sense 1.1).
3. (broadly, uncountable) A similar disease causing a person's leg to be lame.

Verb

1. (rare, transitive) To cause (a horse or its leg) to have spavin (noun sense 1.2).
2. (figuratively, rare, transitive) To impair or injure (someone or something).

Konzepte

Spat

Synonyme

bone spavin

gout

knot

🪢

lump

stalemate

Übersetzungen

ورم العرقوب

esparavany

περιοστίτις ίππου

éparvin

spat

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/ˈspævɪn/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Geerbt von Mittelenglisch: -

In summary

The noun is derived from Middle English spavein, spaveine (“swelling on horse’s leg causing lameness; disease causing lameness in horses”), from Old French espavain, a variant of esparvain, esprevain, esprevin (modern French éparvin, épervin). The further etymology is unknown; one suggestion is that it is from Frankish *sparwan (“sparrow”), though this is seen as quite tenuous.
The verb is derived from the noun.