κόραξ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

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

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

Noun

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

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

Declension

Third declension of ὁ κόρᾰξ; τοῦ κόρᾰκος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κόρᾰξ ho kórax	τὼ κόρᾰκε tṑ kórake	οἱ κόρᾰκες hoi kórakes
Genitive	τοῦ κόρᾰκος toû kórakos	τοῖν κορᾰ́κοιν toîn korákoin	τῶν κορᾰ́κων tôn korákōn
Dative	τῷ κόρᾰκῐ tôi kóraki	τοῖν κορᾰ́κοιν toîn korákoin	τοῖς κόρᾰξῐ(ν) toîs kóraxi(n)
Accusative	τὸν κόρᾰκᾰ tòn kóraka	τὼ κόρᾰκε tṑ kórake	τοὺς κόρᾰκᾰς toùs kórakas
Vocative	κόρᾰξ kórax	κόρᾰκε kórake	κόρᾰκες kórakes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ξ (-x) is a respelling of κ (k) + the nominative singular suffix -ς (-s).

Descendants

• Greek: κόρακας (kórakas)

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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• «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