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cormorant

noun
/ˈkɔːməɹənt/UK/ˈkɔɹməɹənt/US/ˈkɑm(ə)ɹənt/

Etymology

PIE word *ḱorh₂wós From Middle English cormeraunt (“great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo); other types of aquatic bird”) [and other forms], from Old French cormaran, cor-maraunt [and other forms] (modern French cormoran), possibly variants of *corp-marin, from Medieval Latin corvus marīnus (literally “sea-raven”), with the ending -morant possibly derived from French moran (“marine, maritime”), from Breton mor (“sea”), with -an corrupted in English to -ant. Latin corvus is ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorh₂wós (“raven”), which is imitative of the harsh cry of the bird; while marīnus (“of or pertaining to the sea, marine”) is from Latin mare (“sea”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *móri (“sea; standing water”), possibly from *mer- (“sea; lake; wetland”)) + -īnus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’). Cognates * Catalan corbmari * Occitan corpmari * Portuguese corvomarinho

  1. derived from *móri✻ — “sea; standing water”
  2. derived from mare — “sea”
  3. derived from *ḱorh₂wós✻ — “raven”
  4. derived from mor — “sea”
  5. derived from corvus marīnus
  6. derived from cormaran
  7. inherited from cormeraunt — “great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo); other types of aquatic bird”

Definitions

  1. Any of various medium-large black seabirds of the family Phalacrocoracidae which dive…

    Any of various medium-large black seabirds of the family Phalacrocoracidae which dive into water for fish and other aquatic animals, found throughout the world except for islands in the centre of the Pacific Ocean; specifically, the great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo).

    • Th' Eele-murthering Hearne, and greedy Cormorant, / That neare the Creekes in moriſh Marſhes haunt.
    • Thence up he [Satan] flew, and on the Tree of Life, / The middle Tree and higheſt there that grew, / Sat like a Cormorant; […]
    • The cormorant on high / VVheels from the deep, and ſcreams along the land.

  2. A voracious eater

    A voracious eater; also, a person who, or thing which, is aggressively greedy for wealth, etc.

    • In lyke maner who will nat haue in extreme detestation the insatiable gloteny of Vitellius, Fabius Gurges, Apicius, and dyuers other, to whiche carmorantes, neither lande, water, ne ayre, mought be sufficient.
    • VVith eagre feeding foode doth choke the feeder, / Light vanitie inſatiate cormorant, / Conſuming meanes ſoone praies vpon it ſelfe: […]

  3. Voracious

    Voracious; aggressively greedy.

    • Anti-masonry is as cormorant as death, and will not be satisfied though one half the human race be immolated to appease its infernal appetite.
    • ... the victims of fanaticism who frequent Exeter Hall, to be plucked by tax gatherers more cormorant than your own excise-men at home?

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Derived

cormorant fishing, little black cormorant

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA