The story
- Latin · derived fromcubitus
- Old Spanish · derived fromcobdo
- Spanish · borrowed fromcodo“elbow, Spanish cubit”
- English todaycodo
From Spanish codo (“elbow, Spanish cubit”), from Old Spanish cobdo, from Latin cubitus, from cubitum (“elbow, Roman cubit”). Doublet of cubit and covado. Compare codo.
Words from the same roots
Latincubitus all →
cubitus
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.