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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-. Cognates include Latin corvus, cornix. Also see κορώνη (korṓnē, “crow”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kó.raks/ → /ˈko.raks/ → /ˈko.raks/
Noun
κόρᾰξ • (kórax) m (genitive κόρᾰκος); third declension
- raven, crow
- cormorant
- the constellation Corvus
- anything hooked or curved
- door handle
- engine for grappling ships
- hook
- type of torture instrument
- cock's bill
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Further reading
- “κόραξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κόραξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κόραξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- “κόραξ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G2876 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- κόραξ in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN