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Latin
Etymology
From Corinthus + -ēnsis.
Pronunciation
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?
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,
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
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 Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011