corbita

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

• Taboric, cabrito

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