Noun: corvo
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | corvo |
| Plural m | corvos; metaphonic |
Sample Sentences
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Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, / In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore;[…] (I open the window and, suddenly, I see a noble raven tumultuously enter, worthy of the old days.) [1902, “O Corvo”, in Machado de Assis, transl., Poesias Completas [Complete Poetry], volume Occidentaes [Western], Rio de Janeiro: Livraria Garnier-Irmãos, translation of The Raven by Edgar Alan Poe, page 301:]
Nouns inflected like corvo
corvo,
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese corvo, from Latin corvus, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorh₂wós. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
corvo', Latin Nouns '
corvus'.
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