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Where does “carabo” come from?

carabo (Old Portuguese) comes from Latin carabus, from Ancient Greek κάραβος — a kind of beetle, probably a longhorn beetle; a...

Ancestry of “carabo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latincarabuscrab, crayfish; kind of ship
2Ancient Greekκάραβοςa kind of beetle, probably a longhorn beetle; a...
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