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)
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “corcova”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024