corcova

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /koʁˈkɔ.vɐ/ [kohˈkɔ.vɐ]
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /koɾˈkɔ.vɐ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /koʁˈkɔ.vɐ/ [koχˈkɔ.vɐ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /koɻˈkɔ.va/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuɾˈkɔ.vɐ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuɾˈkɔ.bɐ/ [kuɾˈkɔ.βɐ]

Hyphenation: cor‧co‧va

Noun

corcova f (plural corcovas)

hump (rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel)

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited 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

Further reading

“corcova”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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