Etymology

cuvier

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Today it means: Fermenting room of a winery Full definition →

French cuvier
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The story

  1. French · borrowed fromcuvier“vat”
  2. English todaycuvier

Borrowed from French cuvier (“vat”).

Words from the same roots

Frenchcuvier all →

Cuvierian

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.