The story
- Latin · derived fromcorvus“raven”
- Late Latin · derived fromcorbellus
- Old French · derived fromcorbel
- Middle English · inherited fromcorbel
- English todaycorbel
From Middle English corbel, from Old French corbel, from Late Latin corbellus, corvellus, diminutive of Latin corvus (“raven”), named for the shape's resemblance to a crow's beak. Doublet of corbeau.
Words from the same roots
Old Frenchcorbel all →
corbie
Latincorvus all →
CorbincorvusCorbyncorviform
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.