Etymology

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Today it means: a low-pitched double reed musical instrument of the European Renaissance, similar to a rackett, with a bore formed from cylindrical metal tubing bent into a spiral Full definition →

Italian torto ← German Kortholt
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The story

  1. German · derived fromKortholt
  2. Italian · derived fromtorto
  3. English todaytartold

Supposedly from Italian torto and German Kortholt.

Words from the same roots

GermanKortholt all →

kortholt

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.