Etymology

corbe

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Today it means: crooked Full definition →

Old French corbe ← Latin curvus
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromcurvus
  2. Old French · derived fromcorbe
  3. English todaycorbe

From Old French corbe, from Latin curvus.

Words from the same roots

Latincurvus all →

curvecurbcurvicaudatecurvicostatecurviformcurvinervedcurviserialcurvograph

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