corvus

Other forms of corvus

plural

corvuses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about corvus

What does corvus mean?

corvus means "a small quadrilateral constellation in the southern hemisphere near Virgo". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in corvus?

corvus has 2 syllables: cor-vus. The stress falls on "cor". In IPA it is /ˈkɔɹvəs/.

What is another word for corvus?

Close synonyms include Crow, genus Corvus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is corvus a common word?

corvus is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.