Etymograph

English

recurvous

Recurvous comes from Latin curvus ‘curved’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcurvus‘curved’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CErecurvus
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1713recurvous

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcurvus‘curved’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CErecurvus
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1713recurvous

Earliest quotation: 1713, William Derham, Physico-Theology: Or: “I have observed long recurvous Tails, longer than their…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- ‘to bend, curve, turn’

short, across, card, cross, share, cancer, screen, score, shirt, circle, circuit, crucial, skirt, scare, carnival, circulation, scar, cancellation, scrutiny, shrine, circus, circa, crest, corona, shear, scorpion, incarceration, carnage, raffle, carcinoma, corolla, scorn, shred, crux, circulate, shard, carnal, cirque, shrewd, riddance, 117 more

through Proto-Italic *korwos

corvus, 18 more

through Latin curvus ‘curved’

curve, curb, 14 more

Today it means

adj recurved

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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