curvus

== 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 === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkʊr.wʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkur.vus] === 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 ==== Catalan: corb Galician: curvo Italian: curvo Old French: corbe French: courbe→ Romanian: curb → English: corbe Portuguese: curvo Spanish: curvo, corvo → Byzantine Greek: κούρβος (koúrbos) === References === === 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 Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “curb”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.