corcova

corcova f (plural corcovas)

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

From Late Latin cucurvus, perhaps a reduplication of curvus (“bent, crooked”).

• IPA^(key): /koɾˈkoba/ [koɾˈko.β̞a]
• Rhymes: -oba
• Syllabification: cor‧co‧va

corcova f (plural corcovas)

1. hump

   Synonyms: chepa, giba, joroba

2. curvature

   Synonym: curvatura

• corcovar

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