corbita
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin corbita (“sailing freight ship”).
Noun edit
corbita (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 edit
Latin edit
Noun edit
corbīta f (genitive corbītae); first declension
- A slow-sailing freight ship.
Declension edit
First-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