Where does “scorbutus” come from?

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

Ancestry of “scorbutus”, step by step

scorbutus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via French scorbut

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchscorbutscurvy
2Late Latinscorbutusscurvy

via Middle Low German schorbuk

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Low Germanschorbuk—
2Old Norseskyrbjúgrscurvy

Words derived from “scorbutus”

Every word from Late Latin scorbutus →Every word from French scorbut →