Etymology

scorbutus

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Today it means: The disease scurvy. Full definition →

New Latin scorbūtus ← French scorbut
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The story

  1. French · derived fromscorbut
  2. New Latin · borrowed fromscorbūtus
  3. English todayscorbutus

From New Latin scorbūtus, from French scorbut. Doublet of scorbut and scurvy.

Words from the same roots

Frenchscorbut all →

scorbutscorbutic

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.