corb
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin corbis (“basket”).
Noun
corb (plural corbs)
- A basket used in coal mines, etc.; a corf.
- (architecture) An ornament in a building; a corbel.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “corb”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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Catalan
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Lua error in Module:etymology at line 170: Old Occitan (pro) is not set as an ancestor of Catalan (ca) in Module:languages/data/2. The ancestor of Catalan is Old Catalan (roa-oca)., from Latin corvus, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorh₂wós.
Noun
corb m (plural corbs)
Etymology 2
Adjective
corb (feminine corba, masculine plural corbs, feminine plural corbes)
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Further reading
- “corb” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “corb”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “corb” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “corb” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Romanian
Etymology
From Latin corvus, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorh₂wós. Compare Aromanian corbu, Albanian korb, Italian corvo.
Pronunciation
Noun
corb m (plural corbi)
- raven (bird)
- 1852, Vasile Alecsandri, Novac și corbul, chapter II, line 14-17:
- Un corb negru, corbișor
- Ce zbura încetișor
- Și din aripi tot bătea
- Și cu jale croncănea.
- E-atras de doliul sarcastic
- Ce-l poartă aripile tale!
- 1852, Vasile Alecsandri, Novac și corbul, chapter II, line 14-17:
- brown meagre (fish)
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References
- corb in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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