Etymology

recurve

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Today it means: A type of knife blade shape that involves several curves including a concave curve on a portion of the edge, resulting in a belly that is lower than the handle bottom. Full definition →

Latin recurvō ← Proto-Italic *korwos ← Proto-Indo-European *(s)kr̥wós
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  1. Proto-Italic*wre-
  2. Latinre-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*(s)ker-
  4. Proto-Indo-European*(s)kr̥wós
  5. Proto-Italic*korwos
  6. Latincurvus
  7. Latincurvo
  8. Latinrecurvō
  9. English todayrecurve

Derived from Latin recurvō.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.