corbe

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English

Etymology

Old French corbe, from Latin curvus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

corbe (comparative more corbe, superlative most corbe)

  1. (obsolete) crooked
    • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Februarie. Aegloga Seunda.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: , London: Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, , →OCLC:
      I deeme thy braine emperished bee
      Through rusty elde, that hath rotted thee:
      Or sicker thy head veray tottie is,
      So on thy corbe shoulder it leanes amisse.

References

Italian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Noun

corbe f

  1. plural of corba (“large wicker basket”)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔr.be/, (traditional) /ˈkor.be/[1]
  • Rhymes: -ɔrbe, (traditional) -orbe
  • Hyphenation: còr‧be, (traditional) cór‧be

Noun

corbe f

  1. plural of corba (“exostosis of a horse's hock”)

References

  1. ^ corba in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Latin

Noun

corbe

  1. ablative singular of corbis
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