The story
- Germanic · derived from
- French · derived fromscorbut
- New Latin · borrowed fromscorbūticus“pertaining to scurvy”
- English todayscorbutic
From early New Latin scorbūticus (“pertaining to scurvy”), from scorbūtus (“scurvy”), from French scorbut, of Germanic origin.
Words from the same roots
Frenchscorbut all →
scorbutscorbutus
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.