cormorant

English

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A cormorant

Etymology

From Old French cormaran (modern cormoran), from mediaeval Latin corvus marinus ‘sea-raven’.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈkɔːmərənt/

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Noun

cormorant (plural cormorants)

1. Any of various medium-large black seabirds of the family Phalacrocoracidae, especially the great cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo.
2. A voracious eater; a glutton.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)

Translations

seabird

• Bulgarian: дяволица (bg) (djavolica) f, голям корморан (bg) (goljam kormoran) m
• Catalan: corb marí (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鸕鶿 (cmn), 鸬鹚 (cmn) (lúcí)

• Czech: kormorán (cs) m
• Danish: skarv (da) c, (great cormorant) storskarv (da) c, ålekrage (da) c
• Dutch: aalscholver (nl) m
• Faroese: skarvur (fo) m, (great cormorant) hiplingur (fo) m
• Finnish: merimetso (fi)
• French: cormoran (fr) m
• German: Kormoran (de) m
• Greek: κορμοράνος m (kormorános)
• Hungarian: kormorán (hu)
• Icelandic: skarfur m

• Irish: broigheall (ga) m, fiach mara (ga) m
• Italian: cormorano (it) m
• Japanese: 鵜 (う, u)
• Korean: 가마우지 (ko) (gamauji)
• Latin: phalacrocorax m
• Macedonian: корморан (mk) (kormorán) m
• Navajo: tónteel zhį́ʼii
• Norwegian: storskarv (no)
• Polish: kormoran (pl) m
• Portuguese: cormorão (pt) m, biguá (pt) m
• Russian: баклан (ru) (baklán) m
• Spanish: cormorán m
• Swedish: storskarv (sv)

Adjective

cormorant (comparative more cormorant, superlative most cormorant)

1. Ravenous, greedy.
   • William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Act I, Scene 1

     Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives,

     Live regist'red upon our brazen tombs,

     And then grace us in the disgrace of death;

     When, spite of cormorant devouring Time,

     The endeavour of this present breath may buy

     That honour which shall bate his scythe's keen edge,

     And make us heirs of all eternity.

See also

• shag