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
- the constellation Corvus
- anything hooked or curved
- door handle
- engine for grappling ships
- hook
- type of torture instrument
- cock's bill
Declension
Third declension of ὁ κόρᾰξ; τοῦ κόρᾰκος (Attic)
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
- 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, 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