Etymograph

English

corbeille

Corbeille comes from French corbeille ‘wicker basket’, and goes back to Latin corbis.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcorbis1‘basket’
  2. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEcorbicula1diminutive of corbis
  3. Old Frenchc. 842–1400corbeille1
  4. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600corbeille1
  5. Frenchc. 1600–presentcorbeille2‘wicker basket’
  6. Englishtodaycorbeille2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, French corbeille
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English corbeille

Earlier history uncertain. See Wiktionary.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcorbisWiktionary, French corbeille‘basket’
  2. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEcorbiculaWiktionary, French corbeillediminutive of corbis
  3. Old Frenchc. 842–1400corbeilleWiktionary, French corbeille
  4. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600corbeilleWiktionary, French corbeille
  5. Frenchc. 1600–presentcorbeilleWiktionary, English corbeille‘wicker basket’
  6. EnglishtodaycorbeilleWiktionary, English corbeille

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- ‘bundle’

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Today it means

noun A decorative basket.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “corbeille”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for French corbeille. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Latin corbis / corbeille

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