scorbut

• scorbute

Borrowed from French scorbut. Doublet of scurvy and scorbutus.

scorbut (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) scurvy

• scorbutic

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “scorbut”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Related to Dutch scheurbuik. See scurvy.

• IPA^(key): /skɔʁ.byt/
• IPA^(key): (Canada) /skɔʁ.by/

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scorbut m (plural scorbuts)

1. scurvy

• scorbutique

• → Catalan: escorbut
• → Ottoman Turkish: اسقوربوت (iskorbüt)
  • Turkish: iskorbüt
• → Romanian: scorbut

• “scorbut”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from French scorbut.

scorbut n (plural scorbuturi)

1. scurvy