corbe

English

Etymology

Old French corbe, from Latin curvus.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kɔː(ɹ)b/
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)b

Adjective

corbe (comparative more corbe, superlative most corbe)

  1. (obsolete) crooked
    • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Februarie. Aegloga Se[c]unda.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC; republished as The Shepheardes Calender […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], 1586, →OCLC:
      I deeme thy braine emperished bee
      Through rusty elde, that hath rotted thee:
      Or sicker thy head veray tottie is,
      So on thy corbe shoulder it leanes amisse.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “corbe”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Italian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔr.be/
  • Rhymes: -ɔrbe
  • Hyphenation: còr‧be

Noun

corbe f

  1. plural of corba (“large wicker basket”)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔr.be/, (traditional) /ˈkor.be/[1]
  • Rhymes: -ɔrbe, (traditional) -orbe
  • Hyphenation: còr‧be, (traditional) cór‧be

Noun

corbe f

  1. plural of corba (“exostosis of a horse's hock”)

References
  1. corba in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Latin

Noun

corbe

  1. ablative singular of corbis
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