caravella

See also: Caravella and caravel·la

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese caravela, from Old Galician-Portuguese caravela (“caravel”), a diminutive of caravo, carabo (“type of small vessel”), from Late Latin carabus (“small wicker boat decked with hide”), borrowed from Ancient Greek κᾱ́ρᾰβος (kā́rabos, “type of light ship; kind of beetle, probably a longhorn beetle; kind of crustacean, probably a crayfish”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /karaˈvɛlla/

Noun

caravella f (plural caravelle)

  1. caravel

Descendants
  • Ottoman Turkish: قراوله
    • Turkish: karavela

Portuguese

Noun

caravella f (plural caravellas)

  1. Obsolete spelling of caravela
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