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Sicilian
Etymology
From corvu (“crow”) + -eddu, because of its dark colour. Compare Italian corvello.
Noun
curveddu m (plural curveddi) (especially Messina)
- shi drum (Umbrina cirrosa)
Descendants
Further reading
- Traina, Antonino (1868) “curveddu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 4737