corvus

From Latin corvus.

corvus (plural corvuses or corvi)

1. (historical) A hooked ram for destroying walls.
2. (historical) A grappling hook in Ancient Roman naval warfare.

   Synonym: harpago

From Proto-Italic *korwos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorh₂wós, from a root *ḱorh₂- (“crow, raven”), imitative of harsh sounds; see cornīx (“crow”) for more.^[1] The word has been decomposed as from *ḱer- (compare Latin crepō (“I creak, crack”), Sanskrit कृपते (kṛ́pate, “he laments, implores”)) + *-wós (whence Latin -vus).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔr.wʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔr.vus]

corvus m (genitive corvī); second declension

1. A raven; a bird associated with prophecy and sacred to Apollo.
2. (nautical) A gangplank, used in Roman naval combat for boarding enemy ships.

Second-declension noun.

• (nautical): harpagō, harpax

• corvīnus
• Corvus
• in cruce corvōs pāscere

Borrowings

• → Esperanto: korvo
• → English: corvus (learned)
• → Translingual: Corvus

• Corvus (boarding device) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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• “corvus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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