Lexical Definition

‎κόραξ‎ kórax (kor'-ax) raven ^G:N-M
perhaps from ‎κορέννυμι‎

raven.

• a crow (from its voracity)

Abbott-Smith

κόραξ, -ακος, ὁ, [in LXX for עֹרֵב;]
a raven: Lk 12:24.†

Abbott-Smith References

Liddell-Scott-Jones

κόραξ, ᾰκος, ὁ,

raven, Corvus corax (not in [Refs 8th c.BC+]; πάντα τάδ᾽ ἐν κοράκεσσι καὶ ἐν φθόρῳ 'food for crows', [κόραξι καὶ λύκοις χαρίζεσθαι 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Tim.” 8 ">Refs 6th c.BC+]; in imprecations, ἐς κόρακας 'go and be hanged', [Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐκ ἐς κ. ἐρρήσετε[Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐκ ἐς κ. ἀποφθερε; [Refs 2nd c.AD+]: as a prophet of bad weather, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; of fair weather, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; λευκὸς κ., proverbial of something unheard of, [Refs 4th c.BC+]

__2 cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo, [Refs]
__3 the constellation [Refs 4th c.BC+]
__4 title of a grade in the mysteries of Mithras, [Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__II anything hooked or pointed like a raven's beak,[Refs]
__II.1 engine for grappling ships,[Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II.1.b siege-engine, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__II.2 hooked door-handle, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; hook on a machine, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]: generally, hook, [Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__II.3 instrument of torture, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II.4 ={κατακλείς}, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__II.5 point of a surgical knife, σμιλαρίου [Refs 1st c.AD+]; κατιάδος [Refs 4th c.AD+]
__II.6 cock's bill, [Refs 5th c.AD+]
__III tub-fish (compare κορακῖνος), [Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__IV a plaster, [Refs 3rd c.AD+], Latin corvus, cornix, etc.)