Lewis Short
vertēbra | vertēbrum, i (noun F.n) : verto
* A joint.
* In gen., Cels. 8, 1, Plin. 11, 46, 106, § 255; Sen. Ep. 78, 8.—Of insects, Plin. 11, 1, 1, § 1.
* In partic., a joint, vertebra of the spine, Cels. 8, 1.
* In late Lat. collat. form , , , = ἰσχίον, the hip-bone, Cael. Aur Acut. 1, 10, 71 al.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary