Corinthiensis
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɔ.rɪn.tʰiˈẽː.sɪs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ko.rin̪.t̪iˈɛn.sis]
Adjective
Corinthiēnsis (neuter Corinthiēnse); third-declension two-termination adjective
- of Corinth, Corinthian
- c. 186 BCE, Plautus, Aulularia 3.6:
- praeterea tibicinam, / quae mi interbibere sola, si vino scatat, / Corinthiensem fontem Pirenam potest.
- 1852 translation by Henry Thomas Riley
- […] a music-girl besides, who could alone drink up for me the Corinthian fountain of Pirene, if it were flowing with wine?
- 1852 translation by Henry Thomas Riley
- praeterea tibicinam, / quae mi interbibere sola, si vino scatat, / Corinthiensem fontem Pirenam potest.
- c. 117 CE, Tacitus, Annales 6.5.10:
- […] mox Euboeam Aegaei maris insulam et Piraeum Atticae orae, dein Corinthiense litus angustiasque Isthmi evadit;
- 1864–1877 translation by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb
- […] then passed on to Eubœa, an island of the Ægæan, to Piræus, on the coast of Attica, thence to the shores of Corinth and the narrow Isthmus,
- 1864–1877 translation by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb
- […] mox Euboeam Aegaei maris insulam et Piraeum Atticae orae, dein Corinthiense litus angustiasque Isthmi evadit;
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masc./fem. | neuter | masc./fem. | neuter | ||
| nominative | Corinthiēnsis | Corinthiēnse | Corinthiēnsēs | Corinthiēnsia | |
| genitive | Corinthiēnsis | Corinthiēnsium | |||
| dative | Corinthiēnsī | Corinthiēnsibus | |||
| accusative | Corinthiēnsem | Corinthiēnse | Corinthiēnsēs Corinthiēnsīs |
Corinthiēnsia | |
| ablative | Corinthiēnsī | Corinthiēnsibus | |||
| vocative | Corinthiēnsis | Corinthiēnse | Corinthiēnsēs | Corinthiēnsia | |
Synonyms
Further reading
- Corinthiensis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Corinthus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Corinthus, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011