Etymology

sea-crow

Today it means: A gull. Full definition →

Latin corvus maritimus
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

sea-crow · noun1

  1. Latin · calque ofcorvus maritimus“cormorant”
  2. English todaysea-crow

Calque of Latin corvus maritimus (“cormorant”).

sea-crow · noun2

Named either for its dark colour, or from the noise it makes when caught, which is fancied to resemble a crow's caw.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.