Noun: corba
Gender: f
Hyphenation: còr‧ba
cór‧ba
| Singular f | corba |
| Plural f | corbe |
Sample Sentences
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Il Brillo […] fa […] belle verghe, che si colgono nel mese d’Aprile, […] e si sbucciano, e se ne fanno corbe (The willow has beautiful branches, which are picked in the month of April, and are stripped, and used to make wicker baskets) [13ᵗʰ c., “ⅩⅩⅩⅦ. Del Brillo”, in Trattato dell'agricoltura [Treatise on Agriculture], translation of Opus ruralium commodorum libri Ⅻ by Pietro De' Crescenzi, published 1605, page 270:]
Nouns inflected like corba
monferrina,
ossichinolina,
palestra,
nipoteria,
gualdrappa,
bacinella,
minicassetta,
bestemmia,
geostoria,
sferra,
sferza,
sfilza,
triplofonia,
fiduciaria,
meteoroscopia,
ipersonnia,
sovrabbondanza,
corbezzola,
pseudoestesia,
viminata, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Latin corbis (“basket”). See: Latin Nouns '
corbis', Latin Nouns '
corbis'.
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