Corinthius sinus

Latin

Proper noun

Corinthius sinus m sg (variously declined, genitive Corinthiī sinūs or Corinthī sinūs); second declension, fourth declension

1. the Gulf of Corinth

   Synonym: Corinthiacus sinus

   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 44.1.4:

     […] praetor superato Leucata Corinthium sinum invectus […]

     • 1951 translation by Alfred C. Schlesinger

       […] the praetor rounded Cape Leucas, entered the Gulf of Corinth […]

Declension

Second-declension noun with a fourth-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Corinthius sinus
Genitive	Corinthiī sinūs Corinthī sinūs1
Dative	Corinthiō sinuī
Accusative	Corinthium sinum
Ablative	Corinthiō sinū
Vocative	Corinthī sinus
Locative	Corinthiī sinū

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Further reading

• “Corinthus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Corinthus”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011