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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Κόρινθος (Kórinthos).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Corinthus f sg (genitive Corinthī); second declension
- Corinth
Declension
Second-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “Corinthus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Corinthus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Corinthus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Corinthus”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “Corinthus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Corinth”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
- “Corinthus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly