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κόραξ
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ḱorh₂k-, from *ḱorh₂- (“crow, raven”). Cognates include Latin corvus, cornix. Also see κορώνη (korṓnē, “crow”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kó.raks/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈko.raks/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈko.raks/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈko.raks/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈko.raks/
Noun
κόρᾰξ • (kórăx) 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
Declension
Derived terms
- κοράκινος (korákinos)
- κοραξός (koraxós)
- πυρροκόραξ (purrhokórax)
Descendants
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
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