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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *korwos, traditionally derived from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kr̥-wós, from *(s)ker- (“to bend, curve, turn”) + *-wós (whence Latin -vus), and compared with English shrink, as well as Latin carcer and cancer. De Vaan is skeptical of the existence of *(s)ker-, however, and adduces only Proto-Celtic *kurros (“pointed, hooked”) and Ancient Greek κῠρτός (kŭrtós, “bulging, curved”) as cognates.
Pronunciation
Adjective
curvus (feminine curva, neuter curvum); first/second-declension adjective
- bent, crooked, curved
- aged (of a person)
- (figuratively) wrong
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “curvus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 158
Further reading
- “curvus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “curvus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- curvus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E Smith, editors (1911), “curb”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.