cormorant

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. Any of various medium-large black seabirds of the family Phalacrocoracidae which dive into water for fish and other aquatic animals, found throughout the world except for islands in the centre of the Pacific Ocean; specifically, the great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo).
2. (also, archaic, attributive, figuratively) A voracious eater; also, a person who, or thing which, is aggressively greedy for wealth, etc.

Adj

Voracious; aggressively greedy.

Concepts

cormoran

grand cormoran

Cormoran

vorace

affamé

cormoran commun

phalacrocorax carbo

Synonymes

shag

greedy person

glutton

great cormorant

Phalacrocorax carbo

sea bird

water crow

crow

diving duck

darter

esurient

overeater

Black

Traductions

aalscholver

Kormoran

cormorán

cormorano

Phalacrocorax

Phalacrocorax carbo

Scharbe

marangone

corvo-marinho

κορμοράνος

corb marí

cormorão

Phalacrocorax carbo

Κορμοράνος

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈkɔːməɹənt/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: cormeraunt

Appartenant à français: cormoran

Appartenant à français: moran

Appartenant à latin:

Appartenant à catalan: corbmari

Appartenant à occitan: corpmari

Appartenant à portugais: corvomarinho

In summary

PIE word
*ḱorh₂wós
From Middle English cormeraunt (“great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo); other types of aquatic bird”) [and other forms], from Old French cormaran, cor-maraunt [and other forms] (modern French cormoran), possibly variants of *corp-marin, from Medieval Latin corvus marīnus (literally “sea-raven”), with the ending -morant possibly derived from French moran (“marine, maritime”), from Breton mor (“sea”), with -an corrupted in English to -ant. Latin corvus is ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorh₂wós (“raven”), which is imitative of the harsh cry of the bird; while marīnus (“of or pertaining to the sea, marine”) is from Latin mare (“sea”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *móri (“sea; standing water”), possibly from *mer- (“sea; lake; wetland”)) + -īnus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’).
Cognates
* Catalan corbmari
* Occitan corpmari
* Portuguese corvomarinho