corcova
التعريفات والمعاني
== Portuguese ==
=== Pronunciation ===
Hyphenation: cor‧co‧va
=== Noun ===
corcova f (plural corcovas)
hump (rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel)
=== Further reading ===
“corcova”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
“corcova”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
== Spanish ==
=== Etymology ===
Inherited from Late Latin cucurvus, perhaps a reduplication of curvus (“bent, crooked”).
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /koɾˈkoba/ [koɾˈko.β̞a]
Rhymes: -oba
Syllabification: cor‧co‧va
=== Noun ===
corcova f (plural corcovas)
hump
Synonyms: chepa, giba, joroba
curvature
Synonym: curvatura
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=== Further reading ===
“corcova”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025