Corinth

See also: corinth

English

Etymology

From Latin Corinthus, from Ancient Greek Κόρινθος (Kórinthos). Doublet of currant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒɹ.ɪnθ/, /ˈkɔɹ.ɪnθ/

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Proper noun

Corinth

1. A port city in Greece.
2. An isthmus in Greece near the city, connecting the Peloponnese to Europe.
3. A city, the county seat of Alcorn County, Mississippi, United States.

Derived terms

• Corinthian
• Corinthians
• Gulf of Corinth
• New Corinth

 

Related terms

• currant

Translations

city in Greece

• Albanian: Korinti
• Arabic: كُورِنْثْ f (kūrinṯ)
• Armenian: Կորնթոս (hy) (Korntʻos)
• Bulgarian: Коринт (Korint)
• Catalan: Corint
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 科林斯 (fo¹ lam⁴ si¹), 哥林多 (go¹ lam⁴ do¹) (Protestant), 格林多 (gaak³ lam⁴ do¹) (Catholic)

  Hakka: 哥林多 (Kô-lìm-tô) (Protestant)

  Hokkien: 哥林多 (Ko-lîm-to) (Protestant)

  Mandarin: 科林斯 (zh) (Kēlínsī), 哥林多 (zh) (Gēlínduō) (Protestant), 格林多 (zh) (Gélínduō) (Catholic)

• Czech: Korint (cs) m
• Danish: Korinth
• Dutch: Korinthe
• Esperanto: Korinto
• Finnish: Korintti (fi)
• French: Corinthe (fr)
• Georgian: კორინთი (ḳorinti)
• German: Korinth (de) n
• Greek: Κόρινθος (el) f (Kórinthos)

  Ancient: Κόρινθος m or f (Kórinthos)

• Hebrew: קורינתוס
• Hungarian: Korinthosz (hu)
• Irish: An Choraint f
• Italian: Corinto f
• Japanese: コリント (Korinto), コリントス (Korintosu)
• Korean: 코린토스 (korintoseu)
• Latin: Corinthus (la) f
• Latvian: Korintas m
• Lithuanian: Korintas m
• Macedonian: Коринт (Korint)
• Marathi: कॉरिंथ (kŏrintha), कोरिंथोस (korinthos)
• Norwegian: Korint
• Ottoman Turkish: كوردوس (Gördüs), قوريتوس (Koritos)
• Polish: Korynt (pl) m
• Portuguese: Corinto (pt) f
• Romanian: Corint
• Russian: Коринф (ru) (Korinf)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Коринт m

  Roman: Korint (sh) m

• Slovak: Korint m
• Slovene: Korint (sl) m
• Spanish: Corinto (es)
• Swedish: Korinth
• Tagalog: Korinto
• Turkish: Korint, Korent
• Ukrainian: Коринф (Korynf)

See also

• Wikipedia article on Corinth

References

• “Corinthus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Corinth”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
• “Corinthus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Anagrams

• Chirton, Richton, trochin