Corbin
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
An Anglo-Norman nickname from corb (“crow”), or shortened from the Corbinian, the name of a Frankish eighth-century saint, probably from Latin corvus (“crow, raven”).[1]
Proper noun[edit]
Corbin
- An English surname from Anglo-Norman.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- A city in Knox County and Whitley County, Kentucky, United States.
References[edit]
- ^ Harrison, Henry (1912) “Corbin, Corbyn”, in Surnames of the United Kingdom: A Concise Etymological Dictionary, volume 1, Baltimore, Maryland: reprinted for Clearfield Company, Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co., published 1969, page 92, column 1: “(Fr.-Lat.) the Raven [O.Fr. corbin, Lat. corvin-us—corv-us, a raven]”
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