corbita

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English

Etymology

From Latin corbita (“sailing freight ship”).

Noun

corbita (plural corbita or corbitas)

  1. (historical, nautical) A two-masted merchant ship of Ancient Rome.
    • 1998, Eric Flint, David Drake, In the Heart of Darkness:
      The corbita was heading directly back to Chalcedon, on the Asian side of the Straits.
    • 2007, Yossi Dotan, Watercraft on World Coins: Europe, 1800-2005, page 51:
      The reverse depicts a Roman corbita of the third century CE against the background of a map of the Mediterranean Sea from Tunisia and Sicily in the west to the eastern end of that sea and two lions in the foreground.
    • 2013, Coulsdon Writers, Back to the Writing, page 48:
      Two corbitas have arrived at the shipwright in Pompeii, back from Persia; on board are the fine silks and spices that I ordered.

Anagrams

Latin

Noun

corbīta f (genitive corbītae); first declension

  1. A slow-sailing freight ship.

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative corbīta corbītae
genitive corbītae corbītārum
dative corbītae corbītīs
accusative corbītam corbītās
ablative corbītā corbītīs
vocative corbīta corbītae

References

  • “corbitus” in Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary
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