κόραξ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱorh₂k-, from *ḱorh₂- (“crow, raven”). Cognates include Latin corvus, cornix. Also see κορώνη (korṓnē, “crow”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kó.raks/ → /ˈko.raks/ → /ˈko.raks/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kó.raks/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈko.raks/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.raks/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.raks/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈko.raks/

Noun

κόρᾰξ • (kórăx) m (genitive κόρᾰκος); third declension

1. raven, crow
2. cormorant
3. the constellation Corvus
4. anything hooked or curved
5. door handle
6. engine for grappling ships
7. hook
8. type of torture instrument
9. cock's bill

Declension

Third declension of ὁ κόρᾰξ; τοῦ κόρᾰκος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κόρᾰξ ho kórăx	τὼ κόρᾰκε tṑ kórăke	οἱ κόρᾰκες hoi kórăkes
Genitive	τοῦ κόρᾰκος toû kórăkos	τοῖν κορᾰ́κοιν toîn korắkoin	τῶν κορᾰ́κων tôn korắkōn
Dative	τῷ κόρᾰκῐ tôi kórăkĭ	τοῖν κορᾰ́κοιν toîn korắkoin	τοῖς κόρᾰξῐ / κόρᾰξῐν toîs kórăxĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸν κόρᾰκᾰ tòn kórăkă	τὼ κόρᾰκε tṑ kórăke	τοὺς κόρᾰκᾰς toùs kórăkăs
Vocative	κόρᾰξ kórăx	κόρᾰκε kórăke	κόρᾰκες kórăkes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κοράκινος (korákinos)
• κοραξός (koraxós)
• πυρροκόραξ (purrhokórax)

Descendants

• Greek: κόρακας (kórakas)
• Greek: κοράκι (koráki)

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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • chough idem, page 131.
  • crow idem, page 186.
  • raven idem, page 674.
  • rook idem, page 721.
• 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