corvorant

English

Etymology

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

corvorant (plural corvorants)

(obsolete) Synonym of cormorant

References

^ “cormorant, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2021; “cormorant, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “corvorant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

[1] “cormorant, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2021; “cormorant, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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