cuttlebone
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English cotilbone [and other forms], from cotil, cutil, codel (“cuttlefish; cuttlebone”)[1] (from Old English cudele (“cuttlefish”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend, to curve; an arch; a vault”)) + bon (“bone”) (from Old English bān (“bone”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyh₂- (“to hit, strike; to cut, hew”)).[2] The English word is analysable as cuttle (“cuttlefish”) + bone.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkʌtl̩bəʊn/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkʌt(ə)lˌboʊn/, [-ɾ(ə)l-]
- Hyphenation: cut‧tle‧bone
Noun edit
cuttlebone (plural cuttlebones)
- Synonym of cuttlefish bone (“the calcareous, oval-shaped internal shell of a cuttlefish (order Sepiida), originally used in powdered form as an antacid and for absorbing moisture or polishing objects, and now chiefly as a dietary supplement for cage birds”)
- Synonyms: (archaic) sepiostaire, (archaic) sepium
Related terms edit
Translations edit
synonym of cuttlefish bone — see cuttlefish bone
References edit
- ^ “codel, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- ^ “bōn, n.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Further reading edit
cuttlebone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “cuttle-bone, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, July 2023. - “cuttlebone, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
