carboncle

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan carvoncle~carbonclo, from Latin carbunculus.

Noun

carboncle m (plural carboncles)

  1. precious stone
  2. inflammatory tumour

References

  • “carboncle” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Middle English

Noun

carboncle

  1. alternative form of carbuncle
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.