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Latin
Etymology
From corbis + -ula (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
corbula f (genitive corbulae); first declension
- (diminutive of corbis) a little basket
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
- “corbula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- corbula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.