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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek κόραξ (kórax).
Pronunciation
Noun
corax m (genitive coracis); third declension
- raven
- battering ram (or similar siege engine)
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “corax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “corax”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
- “corax”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “corax”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- “corax”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly