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Where does “scorbutus” come from?

scorbutus (English) comes from New Latin scorbutus, from French scorbut, from Late Latin scorbutus — scurvy.

scorbutus (English): The disease scurvy

Definitions

  1. The disease scurvy

Ancestry of “scorbutus”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1New Latinscorbutus—
2Frenchscorbutscurvy
3Late Latinscorbutusscurvy
Every word from Late Latin scorbutus →