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|etymtx=-ακος<br />Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[raven]] (Thgn., Pi.; <b class="b3">Κόρακος πέτρη</b> "raven-rock" ν 408), often metaph. <b class="b2">hook, grappling-iron, door-hook etc.</b> (hell.); also as fish-name (Diph. Siph.; s. below) and as name of a constellation (Eudox.; Scherer Gestirnnamen 191).<br />Compounds: Compp. <b class="b3">κορακο-ειδής</b> [[raven-like]] (Arist.), <b class="b3">ὀξυ-κόρακος</b> [[with a sharp hook]] (Paul. Aeg.).<br />Derivatives: Some fish- and plant-names (because of the colour and the voice, resp. because of the abode; Strömberg Fischnamen 114f., Pflanzennamen 119): diminut. [[κοράκιον]] [[small hook]] (pap.), plant = [[ἱεράκιον]] (Arist.), [[κορακίσκος]] (Gloss.), [[κορακῖνος]] m. [[young raven]] (Ar.), usually fish-name, [[Sciaena nigra]] (Epich., Ar., Arist.) with f. [[κορακινίς]] (Gp.), dimin. <b class="b3">-ινίδιον</b> (Com., pap.); Lat. LW [loanword] [[coracīnus]] > Ital. [[coracino]] etc.; [[κορακίας]] m. [[chough]], [[Pyrrhocorax alpinus]] (Arist., H.), [[Κορακιαί]] pl. GN in Delos (inscr. IIIa; with oppositive accent); <b class="b3">κορακεύς εἶδος ἰχθύος</b> H. (Boßhardt Die Nom. auf <b class="b3">-ευς</b> 85); [[κοράκεως]] m. = [[κορώνεως]] <b class="b2">fig-tree with raven-black fruits</b> (Hermipp. 51; cf. on [[ἐρινεώς]] s. [[ἐρινεός]]); [[κορακησία]] plant-name (Pythag. ap. Plin.), [[Κορακήσιον]] GN (Pamphylia) with <b class="b3">-ήσιος</b>, <b class="b3">-ησιωτικός</b> (Pap. IIIa); on <b class="b3">-ήσιος</b> Chantraine Formation 42, Schwyzer 466; [[κορακώδης]] [[ravenlike]] (Arist.), [[κοραξός]] [[raven-black]] (Str.), [[κόραξος]] fish-name (Xenokr.) with <b class="b3">σο-</b>suffix (Schwyzer 516, Chantraine 434); (<b class="b3">κατα-)κορακόω</b> <b class="b2">lock (with a door-hook)</b> (Mon. Ant.), <b class="b3">κοράξαι ἄγαν προσλιπαρῆσαι</b>. <b class="b3">πεποίηται παρὰ τοὺς κόρακας</b> H., prob. prop. [[hook oneself on]]; as backformation [[κόρακος]] m. [[plaster]] (Paul. Aeg.)? - [[σκορακίζω]] prop. "wish to go to the raven (<b class="b3">ἐς κόρακας</b>)", [[drive away]], [[revile]] (Att., hell.) with [[σκορακισμός]] [[revilement]], [[curse]] (LXX, Plu.); cf. Schwyzer 413. - Extension on [[κόραξ]], [[κορακίας]], [[κορακῖνος]] Thompson Birds and Fishes s. vv.<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [567] <b class="b2">*kor-</b> [[raven]]<br />Etymology: Onomatopoetic word in <b class="b3">-αξ</b>, cognate with the diff. formed Lat. [[corvus]] [[raven]], Gr. [[κορώνη]], Lat. [[cornīx]] [[crow]], Gr. [[κόραφος]] bird-name (H.). In <b class="b3">-α-ξ</b> one assumes since Brugmann Grundr.2 2 : 1, 494f. because of <b class="b2">cor-n-īx</b>, <b class="b3">κορ-ών-η</b> a sonantic <b class="b2">-n̥-</b>(but <b class="b3">-ακ-</b> is productive in Greek). - More forms in Pok. 567ff., W.-Hofmann and Ernout-Meillet s. [[cornīx]]. Cf. [[κορώνη]], also [[κορκορυγή]]; [[κράζω]] and [[κρώζω]].