curvus

From Proto-Italic *korwos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend, curve, turn”) + *-wós (whence Latin -vus). Cognate with English shrink, and Latin carcer and cancer.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkur.u̯us/, [ˈkʊru̯ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkur.vus/, [ˈkurvus]

curvus (feminine curva, neuter curvum); first/second-declension adjective

1. bent, crooked, curved
2. aged (of a person)
3. (figuratively) wrong

First/second-declension adjective.

• Catalan: corb
• Galician: curvo
• Italian: curvo
• Old French: corbe
  • French: courbe
    • → Romanian: curb
  • → English: corbe
• Portuguese: curvo
• Spanish: corvo

• “curvus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “curvus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• curvus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “curb”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.