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carvel

car·vel

Today it means: Synonym of caravel (“a light, usually lateen-rigged sailing ship”). Full definition →

Middle English carvel ← Old French caruelle

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Old French · derived fromcaruelle
Middle English · inherited fromcarvel
English todaycarvel

From Middle English carvel, carvelle, carvile, kervel (“small ship; caravel”), from Old French caruelle, carvelle, kirvelle, see further at caravel. The English word is cognate with Middle Dutch karveel.

Words from the same roots

Old Frenchcaruelle all →

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.