corbel

English

Neoclassical corbel of a city-house from Bucharest (Romania)

Neoclassical corbel in Paris

Gothic corbel in Trier (Germany)

Etymology

From Middle English corbel, from Old French corbel, from Late Latin corbellus, corvellus, diminutive of Latin corvus (“raven”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːbəl/

Noun

corbel (plural corbels)

1. (architecture) A structural member jutting out of a wall to carry a superincumbent weight.

   Coordinate term: console

Translations

(architecture) A structural member of stone, wood or metal jutting out of a wall to carry a superincumbent weight

• Bulgarian: конзола (bg) f (konzola)
• Catalan: permòdol (ca) m, mènsula
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: olkakivi (fi)
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• French: corbeau (fr) m
• Galician: canzorro m
• German: Kragstein (de) m, Konsole (de) f, Widerlager n, Mauervorsprung (de) m, Kragstück n, Auskragung (de) f, Vorkragung f, Sattelholz (de) n
• Spanish: ménsula (es) f

Related terms

• corbelling
• corbie step
• corbel arch
• ledger

Verb

corbel (third-person singular simple present corbels, present participle corbelling or corbeling, simple past and past participle corbelled or corbeled)

1. (transitive) To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel.

Derived terms

• corbel out

Further reading

• corbel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Cobler, cobler

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Old French

Etymology

Either a diminutive of corp (“raven”), corf, or from a Late Latin corbellus, corvellus, from Latin corvus (Vulgar Latin variant *corbus).

Noun

corbel oblique singular, m (oblique plural corbeaus or corbeax or corbiaus or corbiax or corbels, nominative singular corbeaus or corbeax or corbiaus or corbiax or corbels, nominative plural corbel)

1. crow (bird)

Descendants

• English: corbel
• Middle French: corbeau
  • French: corbeau