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Latin
Etymology
From corvus (“crow”) + -īnus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
corvīnus (feminine corvīna, neuter corvīnum); first/second-declension adjective
- corvine; of or pertaining to crows or ravens
- ca.1250, Thomas Cantimpratensis, Opus de natura rerum V, xxxi "De corvo"
Corvi gravidi dicuntur fieri, si eos corvinum ovum edere contigerit.- Crows are said to become gravid if one moves them so one can eat a corvine egg.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
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References
- “corvinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- corvinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “corvinus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “corvinus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray