Etymology

alvine

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Today it means: Of or pertaining to the belly or intestines. Full definition →

Latin alvus
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The story

  1. Latin · learned borrowing fromalvus“belly”
  2. English todayalvine

From Latin alvus (“belly”) + -ine (compare French alvin).

Words from the same roots

Latinalvus all →

alvinolagniaalvinophilia

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