corcova
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: cor‧co‧va
Noun edit
corcova f (plural corcovas)
- hump (rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel)
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Late Latin cucurvus, perhaps a reduplication of curvus (“bent, crooked”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
corcova f (plural corcovas)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “corcova”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014