κόραξ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-. 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 • (kórax) m (genitive κόρᾰκος); third declension
- raven, crow
- cormorant
- anything hooked or curved
- door handle
- engine for grappling ships
- hook
- type of torture instrument
- cock's bill
Declension
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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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 / κόρᾰξῐν toîs kóraxi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν κόρᾰκᾰ tòn kóraka |
τὼ κόρᾰκε tṑ kórake |
τοὺς κόρᾰκᾰς toùs kórakas | ||||||||||
Vocative | κόρᾰξ kórax |
κόρᾰκε kórake |
κόρᾰκες kórakes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
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, 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.
- 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
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
- Ancient Greek third-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension
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