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Yes. The word corvus is a Scrabble US word. The word corvus is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word corvus is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

C3O1R1V4U1S1

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6-letter words (1 found)

CORVUS,

5-letter words (3 found)

COURS,SCOUR,VROUS,

4-letter words (12 found)

CORS,COUR,CRUS,CURS,ORCS,OURS,ROCS,RUCS,SCUR,SOUR,VORS,VROU,

3-letter words (15 found)

COR,COS,CRU,CUR,ORC,ORS,OUR,OUS,ROC,RUC,SOC,SOU,SOV,SUR,VOR,

2-letter words (6 found)

OR,OS,OU,SO,UR,US,

You can make 37 words from corvus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of corvus

corvus

Etymology

Latin corvus

Noun

corvus (plural corvuses or corvi)

  1. (historical) A hooked ram for destroying walls.
  2. (historical) A grappling hook in Ancient Roman naval warfare.
    Synonym: harpago

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *korwos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorh₂wós, imitative of harsh sounds (compare Middle Irish crú, Lithuanian šárka (“magpie”), Serbo-Croatian svrȁka (“magpie”), Ancient Greek κόραξ (kórax), Old English hræfn), from *ḱer- (compare Latin crepō (“I creak, crack”), Sanskrit कृपते (kṛ́pate, “he laments, implores”)) + *-wós (whence Latin -vus).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkor.u̯us/, [ˈkɔru̯ʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkor.vus/, [ˈkɔrvus]

Noun

corvus m (genitive corvī); second declension

  1. A raven; a bird associated with prophecy and sacred to Apollo.
  2. (nautical) A gangplank, used in Roman naval combat for boarding enemy ships.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Coordinate terms

  • (nautical): harpagō, harpax

Derived terms

  • corvīnus
  • Corvus
  • in cruce corvōs pāscere

Descendants

See also

  • Corvus (boarding device) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

  • “corvus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “corvus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • corvus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “corvus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “corvus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  • “corvus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Source: wiktionary.org