corb

See also: còrb

English

Etymology

From Latin corbis (“basket”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔː(ɹ)b/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Noun

corb (plural corbs)

  1. (archaic) A basket, for example one used in coal mines, etc.
    Synonym: corf
    • 1869, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, […], →OCLC:
      He said no more, but signed to me to lift a heavy wooden corb with an iron loop across it, and sunk in a little pit of earth, a yard or so from the mouth of the shaft. I raised it, and by his direction dropped it into the throat of the shaft, where it hung and shook from a great cross-beam laid at the level of the earth. A very stout thick rope was fastened to the handle of the corb, and ran across a pulley hanging from the centre of the beam, and thence out of sight in the nether places.
    • 1863, Henry Mayhew, The Boyhood of Martin Luther:
      I […] carried my corb of fagots home on my back, while my two youngsters had each their bundle on their little shoulders too
    • 1913, Gilbert Murray (translator), Euripides (original), Electra:
      Some bore amain
      The death-vat, some the corbs of hallowed grain
  2. (obsolete, architecture) a corbel (ornament in a building).
  3. A brown meagre (Sciaena umbra)

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Catalan

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin corvus, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorh₂wós. First attested in the 14th century.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

corb m (plural corbs, feminine corba, feminine plural corbes)

  1. crow

Etymology 2

    Inherited from Latin curvus. Doublet of corbo (“hunchbacked”). First attested in the 14th century.[2]

    Pronunciation

    Adjective

    corb (feminine corba, masculine plural corbs, feminine plural corbes)

    1. curved
      Antonyms: recte, dret
    Derived terms

    References

    1. ^ “corb”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
    2. ^ “corb”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026

    Further reading

    Megleno-Romanian

    Alternative forms

    Etymology

    Inherited from Latin corvus.[1]

    Noun

    corb m

    1. raven

    References

    • Atasanov, Petar (1990), Le mégléno-roumain de nos jours: Une approche linguistique, Hamburg: Buske
    1. ^ https://www.dex.ro/corb

    Romanian

    Etymology

    Inherited from Latin corvus, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorh₂wós. Compare Aromanian corbu, Albanian korb, Italian corvo.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /korb/

    Noun

    corb m (plural corbi)

    1. raven (bird)
      • 1852, Vasile Alecsandri, Novac și corbul, chapter II, line 14-17:
        Un corb negru, corbișor
        Ce zbura încetișor
        Și din aripi tot bătea
        Și cu jale croncănea.
        E-atras de doliul sarcastic
        Ce-l poartă aripile tale!
        (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    2. brown meagre (fish)

    Declension

    singular plural
    indefinite definite indefinite definite
    nominative-accusative corb corbul corbi corbii
    genitive-dative corb corbului corbi corbilor
    vocative corbule corbilor

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