corbita
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin corbita (“sailing freight ship”).
Noun
editcorbita (plural corbita or corbitas)
- (historical, nautical) A two-masted merchant ship of Ancient Rome.
- 1998, Eric Flint, David Drake, In the Heart of Darkness:
- The corbita was heading directly back to Chalcedon, on the Asian side of the Straits.
- 2007, Yossi Dotan, Watercraft on World Coins: Europe, 1800-2005, page 51:
- The reverse depicts a Roman corbita of the third century CE against the background of a map of the Mediterranean Sea from Tunisia and Sicily in the west to the eastern end of that sea and two lions in the foreground.
- 2013, Coulsdon Writers, Back to the Writing, page 48:
- Two corbitas have arrived at the shipwright in Pompeii, back from Persia; on board are the fine silks and spices that I ordered.
Anagrams
editLatin
editNoun
editcorbīta f (genitive corbītae); first declension
- A slow-sailing freight ship.
Declension
editFirst-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | corbīta | corbītae |
Genitive | corbītae | corbītārum |
Dative | corbītae | corbītīs |
Accusative | corbītam | corbītās |
Ablative | corbītā | corbītīs |
Vocative | corbīta | corbītae |
References
edit- “corbitus” in Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary
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