corcova
Portuguese
Noun
corcova f (plural corcovas)
- hump (rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel)
Spanish
Etymology
From Late Latin cucurvus, perhaps a reduplication of curvus (“bent, crooked”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /koɾˈkoba/ [koɾˈko.β̞a]
- Rhymes: -oba
- Syllabification: cor‧co‧va
Noun
corcova f (plural corcovas)
- hump
- Synonyms: chepa, giba, joroba
- curvature
- Synonym: curvatura
Derived terms
- corcovar
Related terms
- curvar
- curvo
Further reading
- “corcova”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014