Translation
raven; crow
Word origin
From Latin corvus, raven, which is itself an imitation of the bird's call. The same imitative root gives Greek korax and, at a distance, English croak and crow.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- corvus
- English cognates
- corvid, croak
Examples
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A black raven sat on the dry branch.
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The crows cried above the field.
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In the fable the raven is a wise bird.
is the whole genus Corvus - the big black birds - and, used on its
own, usually the largest of them, the raven. If you need to be precise, the
raven alone is korako, the hooded crow is korniko, the rook is frugilego
and the jackdaw is monedo. Ordinary speech does not bother: a big black bird
making a noise in a field is a .
The bird earns its keep in literature, which is where a reader is most likely
to meet it. Aesop's fox flatters a out of its cheese, and Poe's poem is
in Esperanto, croaking - never again - at the end of
every verse.
Regular derivations do what you expect: o a small one, o a
chick, korva corvine. Do not confuse the root with kurbo, a curve, or
, a body - three letters apart is close quarters in a language this
regular.
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