corbeau

Syllable Decomposition

corbeau

from Old French corbel, derived from corb, corp, from the Gaulish popular Latin corbus, in classical Latin corvus, of the same meaning. The sense of 'author of anonymous letters' dates back to the Angèle Laval affair, which flooded Tulle with anonymous letters in 1920. The affair inspired the film The Raven by Henri-Georges Clouzot, in which a series of anonymous letters signed 'the raven' descends on a small French town.

Definitions

ornithologie
zoologie
histoire
architecturemaçonnerie
antiquité

Synonyms

grand corbeaucorbaccorbingniassegrolleagrollecorvidéconsolecoussinetdouce noirecharbonneau

Feminine

corbelle

Plural

corbeaux

Translations

  • germangerman:Corvus
  • englishenglish:harpago
  • arabicarabic:غراب, غُراب
  • chinesechinese:乌鸦
  • koreankorean:까마귀
  • danishdanish:krage
  • spanishspanish:corvus
  • finnishfinnish:korppi
  • greekgreek:κόρακας
  • italianitalian:corvo
  • japanesejapanese:
  • dutchdutch:corvus
  • polishpolish:kruk
  • portugueseportuguese:corvus
  • russianrussian:ворон
  • swedishswedish:korp
  • turkishturkish:kuzgun

See also

coracien (adj.) Corbeau (pn.)