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corstorphine

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.82 in modern English

Syllables
corstor-phine
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A suburb of Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT2073).

Countable; Uncountable

name

A suburb of Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.

Countable; Uncountable

name

A habitational surname from Scottish Gaelic [in turn from Old Norse].

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

Perhaps from Scottish Gaelic cros (“cross”) + Torfin, a Gaelicized form of the Old Norse personal name Þorfinnr.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

Corstorphines (plural) Carstarphen (alternative)

Questions

What does corstorphine mean?
A suburb of Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT2073).
Where does corstorphine come from?
It is traced to Scottish Gaelic.

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