corvorant
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]A modification, due to folk etymology, of cormorant by combining it with Latin vorantem,[1] 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”).
Noun
[edit]corvorant (plural corvorants)
References
[edit]- ^ “cormorant, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2021; “cormorant, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “corvorant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.