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Latin
Etymology
From Corinthus + -acus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
Corinthiacus (feminine Corinthiaca, neuter Corinthiacum); first/second-declension adjective
- of Corinth, Corinthian
8 CE,
Ovid,
Metamorphoses 15.507:
- Pittheam profugo curru Troezena petebam / iamque Corinthiaci carpebam litora ponti,
- 1693 translation by John Dryden
- Forlorn, I sought Pitthëan Trœzen’s Land, / And drove my Chariot o'er Corinthus’ Strand;
c. 77 CE – 79 CE,
Pliny the Elder,
Naturalis Historia 4.IV.6:
- at in ora promunturium Antirrhium, ubi ostium Corinthiaci sinus minus M p. latitudine influentis Aetolosque dirimentis a Peloponneso.
- 1855–1857 translation by John Bostock and H. T. Riley
- On the coast again, there is the promontory of Antirrhium, off which is the mouth of the Corinthian Gulf, which flows in and separates Ætolia from the Peloponnesus, being less than one mile in width.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Synonyms
Further reading
- Corinthiacus 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 Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011