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Latin
Etymology
From Corinthus + -ius.
Pronunciation
Adjective
Corinthius (feminine Corinthia, neuter Corinthium); first/second-declension adjective
- of Corinth, Corinthian
63 BCE,
Cicero,
De lege agraria 1.2.5:
- deinde agrum optimum et fructuosissimum Corinthium qui L. Mummi imperio ac felicitate ad vectigalia populi Romani adiunctus est,
- 1856 translation by Charles Duke Yonge
- After that, that most excellent and productive land which belongs Corinth, which was added to the revenues of the Roman people by the campaigns and successes of Lucius Mummius.
27 BCE – 25 BCE,
Titus Livius,
Ab Urbe Condita 44.1.4:
- praetor superato Leucata Corinthium sinum invectus
- 1951 translation by Alfred C. Schlesinger
- the praetor rounded Cape Leucas, entered the Gulf of Corinth
c. 15 BCE,
Vitruvius,
De architectura 4.1:
- Columnae corinthiae praeter capitula omnes symmetrias habent uti ionicae,
- 1826 translation by Joseph Gwilt
- The Corinthian Column is, except in its capital, of the same proportion as the Ionic:
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Noun
Corinthius m sg (genitive Corinthiī or Corinthī); second declension
- a Corinthian (person)
c. 77 CE – 79 CE,
Pliny the Elder,
Naturalis Historia 7.LVII.198:
- figlinas Coroebus Atheniensis, in iis orbem Anarcharsis Scythes, ut alii, Hyperbius Corinthius.
- 1855–1857 translation by John Bostock and H. T. Riley
- Choræbus, the Athenian, was the first who made earthen vessels; but Anacharsis, the Scthian, or, according to others, Hyperbius, the Corinthian, first invented the potter's wheel.
Declension
Second-declension noun, singular only.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Further reading
- Corinthius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Corinthus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Corinthius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Corinthus”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011