Strong G2876κόραξ

κόραξ, ᾰκος, ὁ,
raven, Corvus corax (not in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus))]; πάντα τάδ᾽ ἐν κοράκεσσι καὶ ἐν φθόρῳ 'food for crows', [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 833; κόρακες ὣς ἄκραντα γαρύετον Διὸς πρὸς ὄρνιχα θεῖον 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 2.87; ἐπὶ σώματος δίκαν κόρακος.. σταθεῖσα 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1473 (Lyric poetry); κόρακες ὥστε βωμῶν ἀλέγοντες οὐδέν [prev. author] “Supp.” 751 (Lyric poetry); κόραξι καὶ λύκοις χαρίζεσθαι 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Tim.” 8)]; in imprecations, ἐς κόρακας 'go and be hanged', [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 852, 982; βάλλ᾽ ἐς κ. [prev. author] “Nu.” 133; ἀπόφερ᾽ ἐς κ. [prev. author] “Pax” 1221)]; οὐκ ἐς κ. ἐρρήσετε[Refs 5th c.BC+ (; [prev. work] 500; ἔρρ᾽ ἐς κ. 5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 70; πλείτω ἐς κ. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 1314)]; οὐκ ἐς κ. ἀποφθερε; [Refs 2nd c.AD+ ([prev. author] “Nu.” 789; ἐς κ. οἰχήσεται [prev. author] “V.” 51; ἐξελῶ σ᾽ ἐς κ. ἐκ τῆς οἰκίας [prev. author] “Nu.” 123; ἐς κ. ἔρρειν ἐκ τῆς Ἀττικῆς 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 94.5)]: as a prophet of bad weather, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Fragmenta” 253, Thphr “Sign.” 16, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.129a, etc.)]; of fair weather, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 1003, “Geoponica” 1.2.6, etc.)]; λευκὸς κ., proverbial of something unheard of, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 11.417, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “epigram” 43; but white ravens are mentioned by 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 519a6.)]
2 cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo, [Refs ([prev. work] 593b18.)]
3 the constellation [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“Corvus”, 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 449, 2nd c.AD: Ptolemaeus Mathematicus “Tetrabiblos” 27, etc.)]
4 title of a grade in the mysteries of Mithras, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “de Abstinentia - Porphyrii Opuscula” 4.16.)]
II anything hooked or pointed like a raven's beak,[Refs (compare κορώνη 11,)]
II.1 engine for grappling ships,[Refs 2nd c.AD+ (Plb 1.22.3, 2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus “Bella Civilia” 5.106.)]
II.1.b siege-engine, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd-2nd c.BC: Philo Mechanicus “(Belopoeica) Excerpte aus Philons Mechanik - Ath. Berl. Akad.” 100.18, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 17.44.)]
II.2 hooked door-handle, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Posidippus Comicus 7, “Anthologia Graeca” 11.203, 3rd c.AD: Alexander Aphrodisiensis Philosophus “in Aristotelis Sophisticos Elenchos commentarium - pars” 25.17)]; hook on a machine, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (2nd-1st c.BC(?): Hero Mechanicus “Automatopoetica” 15.3, 4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus 49.4.16, 2nd c.BC: Athenaeus Mechanicus 36.10, 3rd-2nd c.BC: Bito Mechanicus 50.9)]: generally, hook, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (Sammelb. 1.24 (3rd c.AD).)]
II.3 instrument of torture, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Nec.” 11 (assuming variant).)]
II.4 ={κατακλείς}, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd-1st c.BC(?): Hero Mechanicus “Belopoeica” 79.11.)]
II.5 point of a surgical knife, σμιλαρίου [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Heliodorus Medicus cited in 4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus 44.10.5)]; κατιάδος [Refs 4th c.AD+ ([prev. author] cited in Scholia 4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus 44.14.4.)]
II.6 cock's bill, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)]
III tub-fish (compare κορακῖνος), [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Diphilus Siphnius Rerum Naturalium Scriptor cited in 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 8.356a.)]
IV a plaster, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Philumenus Medicus cited in 6th c.AD: Aëtius Medicus 5.127, 4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus “fragment” 84. (Cf. κορώνη)], Latin corvus, cornix, etc.)