corvinus

From corvus (“crow”) +‎ -īnus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /korˈu̯iː.nus/, [kɔrˈu̯iːnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /korˈvi.nus/, [korˈviːnus]

corvīnus (feminine corvīna, neuter corvīnum); first/second-declension adjective

1. corvine; of or pertaining to crows or ravens
   • ca.1250, Thomas Cantimpratensis, Opus de natura rerum V, xxxi "De corvo"

     Corvi gravidi dicuntur fieri, si eos corvinum ovum edere contigerit.

     Crows are said to become gravid if one moves them [off their nest] so one can eat a corvine egg.

First/second-declension adjective.

• corvus

• English: corvine
• French: corvine
• Italian: corvino
• Portuguese: corvino
• Spanish: corvino

• “corvinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• corvinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “corvinus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “corvinus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray