English
curvity
Curvity comes from Latin curvus ‘bent’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcurvus‘bent’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcurvitas
- Englishearliest quotation 1669curvity
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcurvus‘bent’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcurvitas
- Englishearliest quotation 1669curvity
Earliest quotation: 1669, William Holder: “the joyned ends of that Bone, and the Incus…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- ‘to bend, curve, turn’
short, across, share, card, cross, cancer, screen, score, shirt, circle, crucial, scare, circuit, skirt, carnival, circulation, scar, circus, cancellation, scrutiny, shrine, crest, circa, corona, shear, scorpion, incarceration, shred, carnage, raffle, carcinoma, corolla, scorn, shrewd, crux, shard, circulate, carnal, cirque, riddance, 116 more
through Proto-Italic *korwos
through Latin curvus ‘bent’
Today it means
noun The state of being curved; a bending in a regular form; crookedness.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin curvus / curvity