Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

corvorant

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cor-vo-rant
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Synonym of cormorant.

Obsolete

Etymology

A modification, due to folk etymology, of cormorant by combining it with Latin vorantem, the accusative masculine or feminine singular of vorāns (“devouring; swallowing up”), the present active participle of vorō (“to devour, eat greedily; to swallow up”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to devour, eat; to swallow”).

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: *gʷerh₃-, vorantem

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

corvorants (plural)

Synonyms

cormorant

Questions

What does corvorant mean?: Synonym of cormorant.
Where does corvorant come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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