caravel

The story

1. Ancient Greek · derived fromκᾱ́ρᾰβος“type of light ship; kind of beetle, probably a longhorn beetle; kind of crustacean, probably a crayfish”
2. Late Latin · derived fromcarabus“small wicker boat decked with hide”
3. Old Galician-Portuguese · derived fromcaravela“caravel”
4. Old French · derived fromcaruelle
5. Middle French · derived fromcaravelle
6. English todaycaravel

From Middle French caravelle, from Old French caruelle, carvelle (“caravel”), from Old Galician-Portuguese caravela (“caravel”), a diminutive of caravo, carabo (“type of small vessel”), from Late Latin carabus (“small wicker boat decked with hide”), from Ancient Greek κᾱ́ρᾰβος (kā́răbos, “type of light ship; kind of beetle, probably a longhorn beetle; kind of crustacean, probably a crayfish”).

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